Poverty, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Guatemala This paper explores the causes of deforestation and … growth and poverty alleviation. …

The literature shows that regional disparities in growth and poverty are often relatively high, that these regional …

.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 …

This work explores the consequences that different energy poverty definitions might have in the energy policy debate …. We estimate the ten percent rule index (TPRI) while proposing and measuring a multidimensional energy poverty index … Chile. Although both measures find that the energy poor represents about 15% of the population, energy poverty levels vary …

reduces the poverty effect of the external shock. Even the significant short-run macroeconomic expansion that occurs without … wage indexation does not translate into significant poverty alleviation, given the offsetting effects of devaluation on …

-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 …

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …