This paper adopts the “Rip Van Winkle” stratagem, of asking what differences would be noticed, in the domain of poverty … and distribution, by someone who fell asleep in 1987 (the year I published my paper on poverty in the IMF Staff Papers …

The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analyzed evidence on the extent … disparities between rural and urban areas, and also between geographically advantaged and disadvantaged regions. In many countries … there are efficiency gains from the concentration of economic activity in urban centres and in coastal districts, the …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …

. Further, the reduction of poverty is typically the expressed goal of such countries, and this feature is also taken into … of private and public goods for the poverty minimization case, and compare the results to those derived under a general … to pay attention to when designing poverty alleviation policies. …