effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income … growth can be unbundled, and the contributions of income components to overall pro-poorness identified. An application to …

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …

dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income …

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored …. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by $13?17 over an untreated baseline of $75 …

s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …