estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …

. Besides exploring cross-country variation in public education, how its low level can lead to a poverty trap and how its high …

expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …