It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

poverty. This paper intends to quantitatively assess the welfare implications of rising food prices in rural Tanzania, by … the complete demand system using the QUAIDS model, and calculate welfare and poverty indices. Our results indicate that … are more affected than middle-income and rich households. The food prices have a major impact on overall poverty and …

This paper is concerned with concepts - poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization - that are typically treated … is on "well-off" countries where poverty is a minority, rather than a majority, phenomenon. At the other end of the scale … measurement of "affluence" can proceed along similar lines to the measurement of poverty. The threshold may be set, relatively, as …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can be difficult to enumerate in a … household's probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … this analysis, which indicates that full-time does greatly increase the probability of exiting poverty. Part …

differences on the measurement of poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty … costs are accounted for by using municipal housing price indices or by replacing the country-specific poverty line with … municipal-specific poverty lines. Applying Norwegian register data for the period 1993-2001, we find that disregarding the value …

and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The valuation of public … scale). Even though the ranking of countries by estimates of overall inequality and poverty proves to be only slightly … affected by the choice between the conventional EU scale and the NA scale, poverty estimates by household types are shown to be …