redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aspects of both congruence and conflict in the relationship amongst poverty, inequality, and welfare. The final substantive …This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …

Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the …

-being and, in consequence, poverty. Three reasons for the existence of a weak relationship are studied: First, the fact that a … heterogeneity in purposes of life. The understanding and abatement of poverty would be better served by a concept of human well …

This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in … estimator. The changes in regional levels of poverty and real per capita public health expenditure are identified to be … spending on life expectancy is larger for those regions that experience higher incidences of poverty. The paper also finds that …

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes … both regions and all three measures of poverty - headcount, gap, and squared gap - the paper finds the impact of GDP growth … on poverty reduction as a decreasing function of initial inequality. The impacts are similar in direction for SSA and non …

This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro … reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure. This paper proposes a pro …-poor growth measure that satisfies the monotonicity criterion. This measure is called the ‘poverty equivalent growth rate’, which …