the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

In Africa, evidence on the interactions among poverty, growth, and income distribution presents a puzzle: While growth … has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has … research agenda on African development in such a way that the interaction between poverty and inequality becomes a core concern …

This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The …, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to … poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to salaried nonfarm workers and higher …

Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A … context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper provides theoretical and empirical … evidence that the contrary holds and that the national poverty line is more appropriate for comparing living standards among …

Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to …

The continued poverty impact of the financial crisis in Serbia is difficult to establish beyond 2010 because of the … pathway of the financial crisis in Serbia, the labor market. The results suggest a further increase in poverty in 2011 on … compared with realized poverty estimates. The micro-simulation model performs well in predicting poverty dynamics during 2009 …

in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced substantial declines in … poverty. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the analysis generates entire counterfactual …

nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty … statistics; and (iii) to provide alternative estimates of poverty and welfare indicators in light of the methodological and … poverty-rate estimates: measurement errors in consumption data and flaws in the methodology used to calculate poverty lines …