The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of … household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … transfers have on the probability of exiting poverty,with or without a concurrent change in employment status. Norway with its …

We estimate the impact of poverty on crime in 19th century Bavaria, Germany. Rainfall is used as an instrumental … determinant of the cost of living and poverty during this period. The rye price has a positive and statistically significant …, a result similar to recent findings from the contemporary U.S. This result is robust to another poverty measure (the …

disturb it. The paper also draws attention to the importance of including – in epidemic crisis models – not only mortality but … also fear of contracting a coming or present epidemic – as well present epidemic disease experience – to explain why … conception rates may fall in connection with an epidemic. …

using these price indices, providing new estimates of inequality and poverty development. Our findings contrast with … larger increase in inequality and a more moderate poverty reduction than what is indicated by the CPI-adjusted measures. …

, bimodal club convergence may result. Economies may get stuck in a Predators’ Club characterized by a vicious circle of poverty …

he IMF monetary model focuses on the balance of payments. This paper adds a poverty stabilization objective to it …. Drawing on statistical income distribution theory, key aspects of the head count poverty indicator are introduced. The … incidence of poverty. A balance of payments-poverty tradeoff relationship is derived. This facilitates analysis of pre …

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …