the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …-working economists. The Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures overlapping multiple deprivations that people face …

China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty … from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions …, little attention has been paid to poverty line settings and subjective poverty, which are hinged to the policy effects. In …

examines whether, and to what degree, indicators of material deprivation, subjective poverty and subjective well-being are …