in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality … with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …

) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …

We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the … knowledge of poverty among households. Poverty measurement is approached by the poverty orderings introduced by Foster and … results in terms of preservation of poverty orderings. We point out the main analogies and differences between inequality and …

This article conceives poverty in terms of the consumption of essential food, makes use of a new deprivation (or … poverty) function, and examines the effects of changes in the mean and the variance of the income distribution on poverty …, assuming a log-normal income distribution. The presence of a saturation level of consumption can be treated as a poverty …

poverty risk. The government has recently commissioned several studies to prepare a systematic reform of the system. The …

paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …

Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax … be quite narrowly targeted at families living in extreme poverty. Over time, the government should consider increasing … support for the poor to find jobs of decent quality will be key to help them overcome poverty in a sustainable way. Ingreso …