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 …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of … household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … transfers have on the probability of exiting poverty,with or without a concurrent change in employment status. Norway with its …

We estimate the impact of poverty on crime in 19th century Bavaria, Germany. Rainfall is used as an instrumental … determinant of the cost of living and poverty during this period. The rye price has a positive and statistically significant …, a result similar to recent findings from the contemporary U.S. This result is robust to another poverty measure (the …

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

Economies that currently have the same productive capacity may implement different growth rates. This entails that it … for future growth in an arbitrary manner. NNP-based measures trade off current well-being and the potential for future … growth in a consistent manner. This paper shows that it matters for NNP-based measures whether different growth rates in …