This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor …

poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and …There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth, manifested in … on developing countries has led to an upsurge of interest in linkages between policy reform, growth, inequality and …

This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for …€˜cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an approach particularly suited to measures of absolute poverty), this paper develops price … indices and calculates poverty lines from unit value data, an often neglected source of information. [Discussion Paper No …

two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative policies to counter extreme poverty and inequality. The paper …The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty …The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on …

a day. Although they are above the average poverty line for developing countries, many people in these new â …€œmiddle classes†may be insecure and at risk of falling into poverty. This paper outlines indicative data on trends relating to … poverty and the non poor by different expenditure groups, and critically reviews the recent literature that contentiously …

include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …

Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons … uncounted. Alternative strategies are needed to fill in inequitable gaps in data. Poverty either in physical terms or in data …

is relatively small, except in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Income and inequality elasticities of poverty change …The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent literature. This study … considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of …