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 … inequality does not change. The head count, the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap ratios decreased by 2.5%, 1.1% and 0 …

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 … high growth rates do not moderate miserliness. Finally, considering the world as a single entity, we find a dramatic rise …

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 …

that immigrant status and ethnic origin may help to explain to some degree the continuing existence of poverty in Norway …, an affluent country known for its relatively low income inequality. The purpose of this paper is to use register data to … discuss the more crucial question of whether or not this rather high incidence of poverty among immigrants persists even after …

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 …