The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …

The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …

This paper aims at characterizing poverty and vulnerability in Haiti based on a unique survey conducted in 2007 in … particular health-related shocks, have larger impact on vulnerability to poverty than covariate shocks. These results are in line …

This study aims at measuring the impact of world price volatility and import tariffs on rice on poverty in Indonesia …. Applying a Computable General Equilibrium-Microsimulation approach and the endogenous poverty line, this study found that the … volatility of world rice prices during 2007 to 2010 had a large effect on the poverty incidence in Indonesia. The simulation …

established in the region, found poverty persistence, the inequality enlarge and the social mobility limitations, some of the most … strategies impulse. In consequence, this situation positioning the themes of the poverty and the social inequalities in an … outstanding point in the regional development agenda. In this work, was did a recount of the main procedures used to poverty …

Caribbean. Lack of sustained economic growth is viewed as the main cause of poverty in the country. The effects of political …

The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …

Economic growth is typically recognized as the effective tool in eradicating of poverty. Unfortunately, many countries … investigate the new tool aimed at reducing poverty through log-linear model and to estimate the impact of exogenous macroeconomic … shock occurred in every sector on poverty through SAM multiplier. The result reveals that poverty is not sensitive to …