effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500 …,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture …

Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents a framework to quantify how much … initial conditions affect poverty reduction, given a level of "effort" (growth). The framework used in the analysis allows for … the growth elasticity of poverty to vary according to changes in the income distribution along the dynamic path of growth …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to …, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and … redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …

Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen …