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 …

The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …

When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to identify the poor, an equivalence … scale to compare individuals from households of different compositions and sizes, and a poverty index to aggregate … individual deprivation into an index of total poverty. A different choice of poverty line, poverty index or equivalent scale can …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. …

indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …

This paper applies Alkire & Foster (2007) approach for measuring the multidimensional poverty. The data set used in the …, expenditure, sanitation, housing and education are respectively the major contributors among overall multidimensional poverty. …

suggested in the empirical literature on poverty and income inequality. An attempt is also made to determine the relative … contribution of economic growth and distribution of income to changes in poverty. Various episodes of growth are considered during …