urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania …. It starts from the observation that migration to towns contributed much more to poverty reduction than migration to … access off-farm employment and exit poverty because they are more nearby. It concludes with a call for greater consideration …

The turn to the use of mixed qualitative and quantitative (Q-Squared) methods in the analysis of poverty is a welcome … that there are important differences between approaches to poverty which operate at the levels of epistemology and … criteria, and the conception/dimension of poverty adopted and interpersonal comparisons of well-being. …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

absolute poverty will depend on how the pattern of employment composition changes within households and on how income is shared … within households. An earlier paper (Fields and Kanbur, 2007) focused on the income-sharing dimension of the problem. The … poverty measures. The precise characterizations demonstrate the need for a nuanced appreciation of the impacts of a minimum …

This paper adopts the “Rip Van Winkle” stratagem, of asking what differences would be noticed, in the domain of poverty … and distribution, by someone who fell asleep in 1987 (the year I published my paper on poverty in the IMF Staff Papers …