income inequality. In this context, growth is defined as pro-poor (or anti-poor) if there is a gain (or loss) in the growth … rate due to a decrease (or increase) in inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores …

high inequality and poverty. …This paper examines the trend in post-Apartheid earnings inequality in South Africa. By combining data sets, the paper … is able to analyze the trend for the whole period 1995-2004. Earnings inequality rose sharply during 1995-1999 and then …

reduces income-poverty is crucially dependent on its impact on employment. This paper addresses the question: what kind of …

The main objective of this study is to compute an international poverty threshold based on the food requirement to … provide a caloric based international poverty threshold. Using this methodology, the international poverty line is estimated …

captures how well targeted a programme is within a group. On the other hand, if our objective is to maximize poverty reduction …

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …