evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …

This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in … standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labour market conditions in Latin America in the 2000s, and have … growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to …

This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in … standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labour market conditions in Latin America in the 2000s, and have … growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …

nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in … integrate various strands of literature on status effects. -- inequality ; inter-temporal consumer choice ; utility ; poverty …