income. Considering both the distributive and efficiency criteria we search for a poverty reducing direction of VAT reform in … Bengal suggest that VAT reform is not largely poverty reducing. Further scopes of improvement in its design are observed. …

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

experience a higher degree of income poverty and costs in terms of people’s reduced likelihood of being able to access medical or …

Colombia as to poverty, misery, unemployment and popular affliction. For this reason it is necessary to change the model …

the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from … 42% to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured with imputed income increases only from 36% to 40%, a much lower …

This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to … poverty into contribution of growth and a contribution due to the redistribution, according to the decomposition approaches … (2001), and the Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate, suggested by Kakwani and Son (2002), are applied to assess the degree of pro …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …