This report presents an update of poverty and income distribution statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and …

inter-household inequality and poverty. …

Since reducing poverty is one of the major development challenges facing India, the country has introduced a wide range … of economic reforms, including a direct anti-poverty program, the Public Distribution System (PDS). This quantity … the impact on poverty and nutritional status minimal. This paper estimates the gains and costs of PDS, assesses the Indian …

much new work has been devoted to deriving and extending decomposable inequality and poverty measures which bridge the … gap between description and analysis by throwing light on the processes undergirding inquality and poverty. For example …