and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …

This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on … recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities … carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It includes a general framework for poverty reduction in Latin America and …

and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …

This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not … only result in higher poverty rates but also may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of … a poverty reduction strategy. As a result, the paper analyses the role of exchange rate policy, capital controls and …

in market income inequality and contributed to a strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent … households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty …

This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of trade liberalization in Brazil using household survey … a close to zero labor income effect. We find that poverty decreased after national trade liberalization (both for women … and men). Additionally, we obtained no significant inequality effects after national trade reforms. Copyright Springer …

, unemployment, inflation, poverty, inequality and political instability exhibits the positive association with the terrorism … incidence in South Asia. Some exploratory economic factors are more elastic in nature, as income inequality exhibits the largest … is a significant relationship between poverty and terrorism incidence, as if there is 1 % increase in poverty rate …

Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The paper introduces …The 20th Human Development Report (HDR) issued in 2010 presents several new indices: the Inequality-adjusted Human … incorporating inequality aversion by choosing a respective parameter. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 …

The paper provides micro-level evidence of rising inequality in Thailand, using data from an intensive study of seven … communities in Northeast and Southern Thailand. This inequality affects participants’ material and subjective wellbeing, their … aspirations, could explain why the effect of material poverty on people’s satisfaction with their lives is small. The reduction in …

In European poverty research, poverty is usually measured with a poverty line defined as a percentage of the national … differences. Therefore, in this paper we document recent trends in national and EU-wide income poverty dynamics. We analyse to … what extent household incomes have converged in the EU and how this has impacted upon poverty dynamics using both national …