among the rich when expenditures are assessed relative to consumption. At the extreme poverty line of USD 1.90-a-day, most …

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

when considering the prevalence of poverty and chronic undernutrition at the upazilla level …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

The debate on the environment-poverty nexus is inconclusive, with past research unable to identify the causal dynamics …. This paper uses a unique global panel data set that links (survey and census derived) poverty data to measures of … degree environmental quality matters for poverty reduction. The paper draws three main conclusions. (1) The environment …

growth in mean incomes and changes in the distribution of relative incomes to reductions in absolute poverty, and, in turn …, examines the role of income inequality for poverty reduction. The analysis finds that the assumption that income is log …-normally distributed allows one to approximate the identity well. Using this approximation, both the growth and inequality elasticities of …