, 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 …

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of … persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom … requires that intertemporal poverty is identical to static poverty in the degenerate single-period case. The remaining two …

This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the … theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which address various aspects of the specific pattern of any poverty spells … experience as a whole. For an individual, our perspective of lifetime poverty is influenced by both the snapshot poverty of each …

The analysis of poverty dynamics yields important insights about the expected effectiveness of alternative social … policies on poverty reduction. This paper analyses the effect of spell recurrence on poverty dynamics taking into account … multiple poverty and non-poverty spells. Using longitudinal data for Spain we obtain that the poverty exit and re-entry rates …

requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other …

Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However …, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption … tested directly. This study analyses the performance of poverty prediction models based on small area estimation (SAE …

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 …

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. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality …

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

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 …