to measure aspirations, thereby limiting comparability of the results obtained. This paper proposes a simple measurement …

. Agricultural growth, a critical driver in poverty reducing growth in many poor agrarian economies in the past, faces many … poverty reduction) to different government spending in India over the last forty years. The results reject the alternate … poverty reduction in the early stages of agricultural transformation. The results show initially high but then declining …

"This paper addresses the potential effects of a world agricultural trade liberalization scenario on poverty and … Brazil, tailored for income distribution and poverty analysis. The model distinguishes 10 different labor types and 270 … model. Poverty and income distribution indexes are computed over the entire sample of households and persons, before and …

Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant … dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we … first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food security measurement system should satisfy. We then benchmark existing …

new approach to measuring trends in poverty and apply it to Tanzania in order to explore the distributional aspects of … economic growth and the relationship between rural poverty and market access. We find that, between 1991 and 2003, a period of … extensive economic reforms, the overall rate of poverty fell about 9 percentage points. The degree of poverty reduction was …

"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and … malnutrition are back in the headlines. The world is making only slow progress in reducing food insecurity, according to the Global … 2006—the most recent available global data—and does not yet take account of the latest changes in the world food system, in …

reliable empirical estimates of poverty levels has grown dramatically... This paper contributes to the poverty measurement …"With the focus of international development resources increasingly turned toward poverty reduction, the demand for … literature by introducing an information theoretic approach to assuring the utility consistency of poverty lines. Even though the …

attractiveness of the CBN approach for practical poverty measurement problems." Authors' Abstract …"The “Cost of Basic Needs” (CBN) approach to drawing consumption-based poverty lines is widely applied and lays … credible claim to being the best practice for estimating poverty measures. Unfortunately, a growing mass of evidence indicates …