In order to track progress in MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of … of growth and its link to poverty reduction. However, there are no corresponding measures for tracking the distribution … of progress in non-income dimensions of poverty, and thus the distribution of progress towards MDGs 2-7. In this paper …

In diesem Beitrag werden theoretische und empirische Zusammenhänge zwischen Globalisierung und absoluter Armut in …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

This paper compares the standard economic welfare approach to poverty measurement to the empirical approaches proposed … in the capability literature under the special focus of their suitability for operational poverty assessment, i … poverty line justifiably remains the most widely used approach regarding poverty assessment. Its underlying value judgments …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually … superior and more policy-relevant measure than the much used regular growth elasticity of poverty reduction. We also test the … empirical relationship of these semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and find them to explain actual …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the effect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …