significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices … have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an imporrtant commonly used subclass of poverty … measures will be robust under data conta m ination. We investigate both the case where the poverty line is exogenenously fixed …

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … large household survey for rural Pakistan, we estimate structural labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of …

positive association between a household's poverty shortfall and its health out-of-pocket budget share? 3. Does an increase in …

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on Poverty Measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which perceptions of poverty correspond to the axioms. …

appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with … poverty reduction. …