translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty …. Collectively these chapters provide a nuanced discussion of key distributive phenomena like the high concentration of income among …

employed. The results are robust to different measures of chronic poverty, income expectations, reference groups, functional …Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather … significantly associated with reduced downward mobility and increased income growth. However, a similar transition from the private … sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income growth …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …