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 …

The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long … shattering of infrastructure impacts the chance that poverty may remain chronic. A long-run perspective is gained by analyzing … chronically poor if the percentage of people in food poverty remains above the national average during two consecutive periods …

model that shows how exogenous variations in market power affect poverty. Increased market power leads to economy … incomes of households, particularly among the poor. Declines in poverty in this context are only possible in the case wherein … poverty eradication. This result suggest the possibility of taxing extranormal rents extracted by firms with market power and …

Multidimensional measures of poverty have become standard as complementary indicators of poverty in many countries …. Multidimensional poverty calculations typically comprise three indices: the multidimensional headcount, the average deprivation share … counterfactual simulations--to break up the changes of the multidimensional poverty headcount into the variation attributed to each …

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 …

significant number of households that are just above the poverty line who are not eligible, by definition, for antipoverty … programs and are at risk of falling back into poverty in the event of an economic crisis or shocks like loss of employment and …

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 …

. Combining income data from poverty maps, administrative records on crime and violence, and public expenditures data at the …