The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … inequality does not change. The head count, the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap ratios decreased by 2.5%, 1.1% and 0 …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz … high growth rates do not moderate miserliness. Finally, considering the world as a single entity, we find a dramatic rise …

scheinbare Unvereinbarkeit von Ökologie und Wirtschaftswachstum. Wie die Vorauflage (ID-B 26/12) belebt auch dieser Band mit …

that immigrant status and ethnic origin may help to explain to some degree the continuing existence of poverty in Norway …, an affluent country known for its relatively low income inequality. The purpose of this paper is to use register data to … discuss the more crucial question of whether or not this rather high incidence of poverty among immigrants persists even after …