. This paper proposes a simple new distribution sensitive welfare index with intuitive units: the average factor by which … individual incomes must be multiplied to attain a given reference level of income. This new index is subgroup decomposable with … population weights and satisfies the three main definitions of distribution sensitivity in the literature. Variants on this index …

major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the …, and landslides, single hazard risk indices are developed. In addition, a multi-hazard index gives a holistic picture of …

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 …