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 …

and poverty reduction. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 makes a brief review of the economic … section argues that the superior economic performance (in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction) of the authoritarian …

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 …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship Workers’ Remittances, poverty, and economic growth in Sub … models to determine the link between Remittances and poverty on the one hand, Remittances and growth on the other. Recourse … to the instrumental variables method turned out to be better for the estimation of the poverty model, while the standard …