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

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

explanation of intergenerational income correlation in Sweden. <p> Paper [II] focuses on the persistence of poverty in Sweden. The … purpose is to distinguish between two different reasons why poverty could persist on an individual level. By using a sample of … from true state dependence, where the experience of poverty leads to a higher risk of future poverty. The results, based on …

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …