inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …

being driven by poor living. Today, however, say that living in the most prosperous in history. In trying to remove poverty …

Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …

The main focus of this study is Rural Punjab and it contributes to regional poverty research in two ways; first, using …), it provides fresh poverty estimates for the rural areas of the Punjab. Second, the poverty differential across the … these zones. This study shows four major factors that explain inequalities in poverty levels. First, the rural areas of two …

microcredit, this article addresses whether or not microcredit has the potential to alleviate poverty, and whether or not the …

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 …

household expenditures and the possibility of computing poverty measures at a very disaggregate level. As such, we aim at … contributing with methodological advances in the assessment of the poverty impact of macro-policies. …