This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …

. We use the 2001 Haiti Living Conditions Survey for distributive analysis and poverty assessment to try to make manifest … that access to land does not help the poor escape poverty. Complementary to the inequality and poverty profiles constructed …

This study analyzes the impact of remittances on poverty in Nigeria, using data from the 2004 Nigerian National Living … (PSM) method to estimate the impact of remittances on poverty. The use of these methods was based on two reasons. The first … international remittances reduce the incidence, depth and severity of poverty. The statistical tests show a significant Average …

, Nigeria. Different conceptions of poverty were constructed: the traditional money-metric measure and differing … multidimensional constructs of poverty. Data from a survey of households in Nsukka were used. The counting and FGT methodologies were … used to measure poverty and deprivation. Ordinary least squares, probit and counting models were also used to assess …

In this paper we compute a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) for Uganda following the approach proposed by Alkire … and Forster (2007). Using household survey data we show how the incidence of multi-dimensional poverty has fallen in …-dimensional poverty. We also compare the results from Uganda with other countries for which the MPI has been computed and we note some …