Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty …

inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … over time and the evolution of the global distribution has been welfare improving. Our decomposition of overall welfare …