This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

reports of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Previous studies have taken only the views of the household head into consideration in …

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 …

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 …

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

There are alternative definitions of vulnerability to poverty. Most researchers prefer to define vulnerability as the … probability of a household or individual falling into poverty in the future. Based on this definition and using household survey … panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …

This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long …

macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain … sectors may cause greater poverty reduction. The model involves a non-traded and a traded sector on the formal side of the … traded sector is more pro-poor compared to a similar rise in the non-traded sector as the former draws workers out of poverty …

market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposed to the forces of … globalization to test whether minimum wages are an effective poverty reduction tool in this environment. We find the net effect of …

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 …