poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … is less capital intensive (as capital flows to the informal sectors). This helps in understanding trends in urban poverty … given the strong association between the urban informal wage and degree of urban poverty. …

living standards in LDCs. In particular, it is not known if a substantial share of welfare or poverty is the consequence of … contrast, the change in poverty can be considerable, for chronic as well as transient or seasonal poverty indicators. The … deflation generally yields a larger transient seasonal share of annual poverty. The choice of the poverty line or the season …

the catching-up hypothesis backward economies may get stuck in a poverty trap. Growth in lagging economies is not driven …. Economies can escape the poverty trap by reducing trade barriers, but the benefits from an open economy is highest in middle …

seasonal poverty indices. The estimation results show that the number of children, the age and the minority ethnic group of the … head, and the distance to the nearest market are related to higher household chronic and transient poverty. In contrast …, the education level of the head and the land area cultivated by the household are associated with lower household poverty …

It is crucial for social policy in Less Developed Countries to identify separate correlates for transient poverty and … chronic poverty at the household level because seasonal poverty substantially contributes to annual poverty. This has been … attempted by estimating household equations for those poverty indicators typically by using Tobit and Probit models. However …