Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra … vulnerable to falling into poverty. In both countries, labour market resources (education and occupational status of the head … substantially more vulnerable to falling into poverty and have little chance of advancing to upper classes. -- intra …

people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …

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

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and …

over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of … poverty decomposition. …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …