ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION: INITIAL CONDITIONS MATTER …The focus of this paper is on analytical examination of how the relation between growth and poverty can change with the … initial levels of economic development and inequality. Using the idea of poverty elasticity, measuring the extent to which …

The main objective of this study is to compute an international poverty threshold based on the food requirement to … provide a caloric based international poverty threshold. Using this methodology, the international poverty line is estimated …

consequences of these developments on children, few studies have systematically analyzed the poverty situation among the elderly …

captures how well targeted a programme is within a group. On the other hand, if our objective is to maximize poverty reduction …

Poverty affects a large proportion of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and, far from decreasing, the proportion and … numbers of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa have actually increased over the last ten years. Policies to reduce poverty in … dimensions of poverty. Therefore we investigate here both the impact of a cash transfer on current poverty and the impact of …