Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal distribution. We also test the empirical relationship of … the derived semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and them to explain changes in poverty very … well (in fact, better than a related study by Bourguignon (2003) that studied the regular growth elasticity of poverty …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

education, health, and poverty reduction and will make improvements in these areas very difficult. It may also be an important … between 1.5 and 3 percentage points. It could also significantly contribute to improvements in poverty, inequality, education … as well as family planning services, and government political leadership to promote smaller families. -- poverty …

of poverty has neglected the non-income dimensions. After an examination of prominent views on the linkages between … economic growth, inequality, and poverty reduction this paper discusses the proper definition and measurement of pro … non-income dimensions of poverty and offers some important new insights about differences in the evolution of both poverty …