This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

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 …

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 …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …

macroeconomic outcomes on poverty rates. With regard to policy, the study examines the changes that took place in 1997-98, and then … acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. …

importance of tax-benefit instruments across countries and on the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. The …