inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare … implication of the empirical findings suggests that Fiji is unlikely to achieve its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty …

Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there … subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by empirically estimating best-fit income … distribution functions for different household income groups and computing poverty and inequality indices for Sri Lanka. Design …

Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there … subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by empirically estimating best-fit income … distribution functions for different household income groups and computing poverty and inequality indices for Sri Lanka. Design …