British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives. The …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions … multidimensional poverty, on the one hand, and a "dashboard" approach that looks only at marginal distributions, on the other. These …

least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on cross-country data on poverty, inequality, and … microeconomic approach, in particular, builds on the observation that growth, changes in poverty, and changes in inequality are …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 … social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics … substantial contribution to poverty reduction …