assessment of socioeconomic convergence in terms of critical indicators of economic inequality, poverty ratios, literacy rate and … conditional β-convergence has been evident in case of per capita SNDP and poverty ratios. β-convergence estimates for the recent … period (post-2001) show, a divergence in per capita SNDP and poverty ratios but convergence in literacy rates and HDI. Kernel …

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine … distribution of expected future asset-wealth, as they also generally do over the bi-dimensional distribution of present asset-wealth …

What is wealth? This paper proposes wealth and poverty are opposite sides of the same coin and to know the source of … answer the question: what is wealth? scarcity, economic strife and poverty would not exist in the world today. Two kinds of … wealth are discussed, aesthetic and technical wealth. Is it possible that contrary to belief, the use of assets and …