consequences of these developments on children, few studies have systematically analyzed the poverty situation among the elderly … (relative to other groups) in low income countries Africa, and the role of social pensions. This study aims to fill this gap … several countries. The analysis shows that the poverty situation, and especially the poverty gap ratio, for the household …

This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro … reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure. This paper proposes a pro …-poor growth measure that satisfies the monotonicity criterion. This measure is called the ‘poverty equivalent growth rate’, which …