This poverty and equity report provides updated poverty and inequality statistics from the Grenada Survey of Living … Grenada, examine poverty and inequality trends, and develop a basket of goods and services that can be used to estimate the …

A social development perspective is used to seek an answer to the question: why is the incidence of absolute poverty so …

Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase … monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty measures seek to address this shortfall and have been adopted as an official …, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions." A particular …

A joint analysis of poverty and living standards was conducted by a technical team from the Ministry of Planning and … Finance, Government of Myanmar, and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Poverty has previously been … data, poverty in Myanmar has been estimated using two different approaches. Poverty was initially measured by the …

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 …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlook periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …

crucial role of labor earnings in poverty and inequality reduction, this report analyzes more deeply LAC's labor markets and …While LAC continues its progress towards becoming a middle-class region, in 2013 poverty reduction was slower than in … financial crisis. Driving the lower gains in shared prosperity and poverty reduction is the region's slowing economic growth …

. Unfortunately, many LAC countries entered the crisis with low potential economic growth and high levels of inequality, following the … seen a reduction in the number of people living in poverty by nearly half and an increase in the size of its middle class …. Income inequality also decreased, as income growth has been primarily pro-poor in recent years. Despite variations across …