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The Post-Apartheid Evolution of Earnings Inequality in South Africa, 1995-2004

Leite, Phillippe G.; McKinley, Terry; Osório, Rafael … - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

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 … earnings inequality in the 1990s. Unemployment began to level off in the 2000s but remained at a high rate. An unprecedented …

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How costly is it to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015?

Kakwani, Nanak; Son, Hyun H. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

methodology which gives a linkage between costs of MDG, growth, poverty, and inequality. In this study, the methodology is applied …

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Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

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 …

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Headcount Poverty Comparisons

Subramanian, S. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2005

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New Global Poverty Counts

Kakwani, Nanak; Son, Hyun H. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

The main objective of this study is to compute an international poverty threshold based on the food requirement to ensure an adequate calorie intake for the world?s poorest. The study proposes a new methodology based on consumer theory to provide a caloric based international poverty threshold....

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Assessing the pro-poorness of government fiscal policy in Thailand

Son, Hyun H. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

This paper proposes a methodology to assess the pro-poorness of government fiscal policies in view of bringing marginal reforms. A government policy is said to be pro-poor if it benefits the poor proportionally more than the non-poor. The author first derives the poverty elasticity for the...

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Operational Poverty Targeting In Peru ? Proxy Means Testing With Non-Income Indicators

Johannsen, Julia - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

he measurement of per capita daily expenditures relative to a monetary poverty line, also known as ?sophisticated means testing?, is the most widely used approach to poverty assessment. However, it is reliant on the implementation of time- and cost-intensive household surveys. Hence, for...

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Inter-country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: An Empirical Exercise

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the …. Meaningful and coherent inter-country poverty comparisons can be advanced through international co-ordination in survey design …

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Chinese Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Assumptions

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Minoiu, Camelia - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

This Working Paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of consumption poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as a result of alternative plausible assumptions concerning the poverty line and estimated levels of consumption. The exercise is motivated by the existence of...

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Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: Impacts on Inequality and Poverty

Soares, Fabio Veras; Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon; … - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

This paper evaluates the contribution of cash transfer programmes to the observed fall in inequality in Brazil between … in the Gini inequality between 1995 and 2004 (7% from BPC and 21% from Bolsa Família). This contribution is quite sizable …

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