Despite the increasing awareness concerning the importance of distinguishing chronic and transient poverty for policy … making, cross-country comparative studies of poverty dynamics in developing countries are virtually non-existent. The small … differences among them. Crucial questions are still unanswered. Are the factors associated with chronic poverty and vulnerability …

Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

The multidimensionality of poverty is now widely acknowledged. Some recent studies in developed countries show that … there is a weak correlation between the monetary poverty approach and the household's subjective perception of their well … reference comparison group? Finally, how much weights do have new poverty dimensions such as vulnerability and social or …

-economic growth and the reduction of income inequality on monetary poverty. Our results emphasise the potential importance of the … population living in absolute poverty by 2015. The first section analyses the factors which lead to placing poverty reduction at … the core of development policies. The second section conducts a survey on the impact of growth and inequality on poverty …