poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite …

In this paper we develop a multidimensional poverty measure that attempts to capture absolute poverty in the … the resource space. To generate a relative measure, this measure adapts the poverty cut-off in resource-related indicators … in a multidimensional poverty measure to prevailing standards in a region. As illustration, this poverty measure utilizes …

conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues to be considered are the space in which gender inequality in … overall measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is … necessarily the goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of …

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …