This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurringeconomic crises that affect developing … lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paperaddresses the question of how poverty should be measured over …

This paper documents the impact of Argentinaamp;apos's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a … special focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a … simple rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

positive association between a household's poverty shortfall and its health out-of-pocket budget share? 3. Does an increase in …

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European … pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the early nineteen-nineties. After this period poverty reduces slightly …

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …