In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania … introduced an anti-poverty program, namely Ndihma Ekonomike; in 1995 it was extended to all poor households. This paper estimates … subjective measures of household poverty. The analysis uses the nationally representative Albanian Living Standards Measurement …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous welfare impacts within the … likely welfare losses in the short-term while also promoting longer-term recovery. …

The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors …. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions … that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household … quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 Household Budget Survey). The … analysis finds that household attributes account for most of the welfare differences between urban and rural areas within …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various … sources of welfare interdependence are identified, including the idea of "relative deprivation" as well other (positive and …