non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher … death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s … rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect. The net impact of differential natural population growth …

poverty and distributional impacts, the model includes ten households in each of the seven federal okrugs, where household …

This paper addresses the potential effects of the Doha round of trade negotiations on poverty and income distribution … distribution and poverty analysis. Of particular importance is the fact that the representative household hypothesis is replaced by …,055 Brazilian households and 263,938 adults. Poverty and income distribution indices are computed over the entire sample of …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …