The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

Most rural households in Pakistan remain in a state of energy poverty. They use a variety of non-conventional energy … Poverty Survey (EPS), carried out in rural Pakistan from December 2008 till January 2009, showed that rural households use … measure the degree of Energy Poverty among rural households. This index takes into account the inconvenience for the household …

raised concerning the continued importance of manufacturing for economic development, catch up and poverty reduction in … of economic development: growth, employment creation and poverty reduction. The main question addressed in this report is … alleviation of poverty in the least developed economies and in emerging middle-income countries. This report argues that …

, foreign direct investment and domestic investment; and (5) the relative contributions of growth and inequality to poverty …