In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of … poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

- 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 …