: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru …1. Balance of payments liberalization in Latin America : effects on growth, distribution and poverty / Lance Taylor and … Rob Vos -- 2. Labour market adjustment, poverty and inequality during liberalization / Enrique Ganuza, Ricardo Paes de …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …

An Asian poverty line? Issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- A poverty line contingent on reference groups …: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Jacques Silber … -- Concepts and measurment of vulnerablility to poverty and other issues: a review of literature / Tomoki Fujii -- Measuring the …

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of … the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a … reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line …

macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … series to access the relation between this weak and unstable macroeconomic performance on poverty and inequality. The … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very …