transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

to impute missing and interval-censored values in the 2000 and 2006 Labour Force Surveys, and compares poverty estimates … obtained under several different methods of reconciling coarsened earnings data. Estimates of poverty amongst the employed are …

poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic needs approach, an … analysis-of-covariance model is derived and estimated, with the headcount, gap and squared gap poverty ratios serving as the … the responsiveness of poverty to income growth is a decreasing function of inequality, albeit at varying rates for the …