intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a …

provides sufficient information to place upper and lower bounds on the degree of mobility in the income distribution. The paper … of the data allows us to compare measures of mobility directly estimated from the micro data with approximations based … only on aggregate data. Bounds on mobility are estimated for a large cross-section of countries, using data on aggregate …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

affect growth in opposing directions. Because inequality and poverty are different aspects of the income distribution …, inequality can also affect growth through poverty, an indirect channel that has not been explicitly analyzed. This paper … inequality and poverty to an otherwise standard set of growth determinants. Given inequality, the correlation of growth with …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …

households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel …'s 2015 fiscal policy reduces inequality; the largest reduction is created by in-kind public service expenditures on education …. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct …

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages -- leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow … the pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …