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 …

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 …

poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …

The functioning of the labor market often has been stressed as a clear determinant in explaining poverty trends in … developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU … poverty, we propose the construction of a counterfactual distribution of wages where discrimination against women has been …

This article estimates poverty persistence over an individual's lifetime, using two definitions: income poverty and a … characterization of poverty persistence risks faced by various population subgroups, but also the additional insights to be gained by … territorial dualism in generating persistent poverty for certain groups of the population. …

Colombia’s decentralization was conceived to improve population’s access to social services, reduce poverty and …