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 … partition inequality into within-race group and between-race group components. This paper pushes such a programme by using a …

The set of studies in this report explores farm performance across climates in India. The goal of the study is to … examine farm behavior and test if there is any evidence that farmers in developing countries, such as India, currently adjust …

This discussion paper constructs a consistent, nationwide poverty profile of Cambodia to support the government …'s effort to strengthen the design of poverty reduction policies. Basic data are given on the level and distribution of living … (SESC) of 1993-94 to estimate poverty measures and make poverty comparisons for Cambodia. …

Despite impressive success in improving living conditions in many Caribbean countries, poverty still persists … throughout the region. This study seeks to improve our understanding of poverty in the Caribbean and the current efforts to … address it. It analyzes the causes and characteristics of poverty in 15 Caribbean countries and reviews the experiences with …

Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment … reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an important development goal. This report documents the structural role of … case that reducing gender inequality would increase growth, efficiency, and welfare. The authors make key recommendations …

This report analyzes the evolution of poverty and inequality in the LAC region from 1986 to 1996 with projections to … literature on issues related to poverty, inequality, and social policy in LAC. Some of the theoretical developments introduce new … 1998. It reviews the policies which have been advocated or implemented to reduce poverty. The report combines the results …

This report consists of a collection of essays on extreme poverty. The first part of the report deals with what it … means to live in extreme poverty, how to reach the very poor, through programs, and interventions, and how to make private … poverty, and human rights. …

This report presents an update of poverty and income distribution statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and … of income inequality relative to other regions of the world, and the results of this study indicate that this continues …

The quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and analysis have often been treated by … on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either the quantitative or the qualitative …