We propose a new and integrated approach to the measurement of inequality in income distribution, poverty, and richness …

This work concentrates in the fundamental ideas that constitute the existing theoretical framework of the poverty … measurement from the 1960’s to the state-of-the-art, with an extended comment on the more relevant issues, the presentation of … more influencing approaches and the probable path of future research in Poverty Economics …

argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty …

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …