household poverty for an archetype developing country. Unlike other studies, we present the income distribution of each … study, this paper presents the poverty lines as being endogenous. With this specification, the poverty line will change …

standards and for using it to measure poverty and inequality. It goes on to discuss the principal uses to which consumption data …

problems with the current $1-a-day poverty counts, makes some suggestions for improvement, and identifies issues that need … further research. World poverty numbers are calculated in two stages. At the first, or international stage, a world poverty … line is set and used to derive comparable poverty lines for each country. At the second, or domestic stage, the poverty …

constructed from survey data have been used to measure poverty, to analyse changes in living standards, over time, and to assess …

This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing … countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher fraction of children are in poverty than are … adults. However, it is difficult to make even simple poverty comparisons of this sort. A perennial difficulty is the passage …

(CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided … way, poverty. Part 2 is devoted to the presentation of a CGE model calibrated on an archetype African SAM (same as above …). One innovation in the specification of the present CGE is that it goes part way in endogenizing the poverty line and the …