This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-523; 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 …

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of … conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well … measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the …

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …