revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

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 …

Twenty-five years ago, the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke … poverty to which its methodology has been applied. We conclude with a selection of prospective research topics. …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality … with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …