poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

-called “permanent income”. Finally, some light is also shed on the measurement of the efforts of public policies aimed at poverty …Our paper contains an investigation on poverty based on the absolute approach. Actually, absolute poverty has not been … totally eliminated, also in developed countries and particularly in Italy. Moreover, this method has poverty levels not …

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 report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, most studies show that the old are represented proportionally or under …

Integration to world markets is expected to help developing countries to access prosperity. At the same time …

measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate …

In this paper we present a comparative analysis of poverty and income inequality prevalent in the seven towns of Lahore …