Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

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 …

. Inequality between global citizens is estimated at 70 Gini points rather than 65 as before. The richest decile receives 57 …

This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …

to a 10 percent probability of falling into poverty is estimated, and this is used as the middle class threshold for …. The results show that there has been considerable improvement on the size of the middle class and poverty reduction … between 2003 and 2013. Poverty decreased between 2003 and 2013 from 45 to 33 percent, while the middle class increased from 13 …

and Public Policy -- provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality and inequality of opportunity. A … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of … opportunity -- and empirical applications -- are reviewed, and implications for the measurement of poverty and of the rate of …

above and below the poverty line. This analysis, based on the Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Panel Survey … conducted by Egypt’s national statistical agency, compares the changes in the static poverty profiles (based on growth incidence … curves on a cross-section of data) with poverty dynamics (relying on panel data, growth incidence curves and transition …

industrialization opportunity will set forth on a dynamic path of structural change that can lead to poverty reduction and prosperity. …