first derives the poverty elasticity for the general class of poverty. Then, using the idea of poverty elasticity, she …

distribution and the poverty line for a given population. The idea that poverty is morally unacceptable and can be eradicated … the aggregated income required to eradicate poverty by the way of transfers from the rich to the poor. I estimate an …

We propose two different concepts of feminization of poverty and analyze household survey data to verify if there is an … ongoing feminization of poverty in eight Latin American countries, according to each of these concepts. We also verify if our … results respond to changes in values of poverty lines and to different scenarios of intra-household inequalities, concluding …

dollars in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015. It provides a … methodology which gives a linkage between costs of MDG, growth, poverty, and inequality. In this study, the methodology is applied … only to the head-count poverty measure but is applicable to other poverty measures. This study takes into account the …

performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late …

development practitioners associate with the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The tendency of young people from …