In this paper an attempt is made to estimate poverty line/ratio and inequality consistent with NAS based consumption … poverty measurement controversy based on two sources of estimations but explores consistent estimation. …

While Asia’s success in growth and poverty reduction is to be greatly welcomed, and should be analysed for the …

poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …

The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …

Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline … well contributory pensions and social allowances reached the poor and to which extent these transfers affected poverty and … different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …

This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …