poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

This article concerns the need to define poverty in a way to be relevant to the context it is to refer, to be … socioeconomic situations and analyses the two approaches to poverty - basic needs and income (or poverty line) - in what concerns … their advantages and shortcomings. It highlights how perverse the generalization of the use of the poverty line approach can …

Poverty trap models are dynamical systems with more than one attractor. Similar dynamical systems arise in optimal …

macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … series to access the relation between this weak and unstable macroeconomic performance on poverty and inequality. The … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very …

In this study we present evidence of the impact of demographic factors on the level of poverty based on the Brazilian … consequently on the level of poverty. We presented estimates of the impact on poverty of a series of alternative demographic … to a continuous reduction in poverty, which is equivalent to an additional 0.4 to 0.5 percentage point in annual growth …