-income households. The search for significant relationships between multidimensional deprivation and income poverty has been a central …

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …

of growth. In particular, that effect tends to reduce poverty while the structural effect tends to increase it. This … conclusion is robust with respect to the choice of poverty measures and RIF regression models. …

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

To analyse in-work poverty, we build a model in which human capital and productivity varies over time with experience …, time-related obsolescence and poverty. The model reveals four possible trajectories: poverty to exclusion; permanent … poverty; the emergence from poverty; poverty to non-poor worker and back to poverty. It also generates the main traits of in …

continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National Sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …

in Colombia and Peru. Relying on household survey data, we simulate the potential impact of the transfer on poverty … Nested Logit Model. Our results show that a NCP in Colombia and Peru contributes to the reduction of poverty and inequality …

-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …