of development to redefine concepts such as development and poverty. …

of ownership by analysing the substance of 22 developing countries' Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the … income poverty reduction and social sector investments (education, health and water) are important priorities in most of the … a goal of reducing inequality in income and other dimensions of poverty within and between countries. Second, this …

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …