of the poverty line. …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …

This paper describes the concepts of poverty and vulnerability as well as the interconnections and differences between … them using an interdisciplinary approach. While poverty is a static concept, vulnerability has a forward-looking dimension …. We, therefore, review the methodologies that different disciplines use to measure poverty and vulnerability. In …

end of 2002, poverty is likely to be high and to have risen in recent years even compared to its high postconflict level …. The first objective of this chapter is to estimate the share of the population in poverty in 2002, predict how it may have … evolved since then, and assess the levels of growth that will be required to reduce poverty measures in the future. The …

This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the … variations in the poverty indicators and the main components that answer for this variation - decomposition model;another that … simulates the effects of the variation of the income and the concentration indicators on the poverty level - model of elasticity …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

poverty dynamics. In this paper, the results of longitudinal data analyses on income and poverty in three European welfare … poverty measures have been applied to reveal these dynamics. The focus will be on so-called poverty profiles indicating … models are estimated that aim to explain the likelihood of belonging to each of the poverty profiles over time and on the …