The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central … economic affairs use these new approaches to examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the ability of … techniques to analyze the regional dynamics of poverty and inequality in Peru and Brazil, considering whether there are spatial …

findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce … fertility, child mortality, and undernutrition, we estimate what the costs in terms of growth, and forgone fertility, mortality … per capita growth rates as a result and will have 0.1-0.4 more children per woman, and, by 2015, an average of 15 per 1000 …

In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality …, similar to Forbes we find a significant positive association between inequality and subsequent economic growth in the full … relationship between inequality and growth emerges due to the particular timing of inequality and growth dynamics in transition …

findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce … fertility, child mortality, and undernutrition, we estimate what the costs in terms of growth, and forgone fertility, mortality … per capita growth rates as a result and will have 0.1-0.4 more children per woman, and, by 2015, an average of 15 per 1000 …

This paper challenges the widespread belief that FDI generally has a positive impact on economic growth in developing … countries. It addresses the limitations of the existing literature and re-examines the FDI-led growth hypothesis for 28 … countries FDI has no statistically significant long-run impact on growth. In very few cases, FDI indeed contributes to economic …