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

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 …

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 …

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 discusses the evolution of education and health poverty in Indonesia during a period of substantial economic … poverty using the Demographic and Health Survey. The case of Indonesia suggests that poverty may urbanize but remains largely …