Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 … made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most …

points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient. …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …

.8 percentage points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient …

Measuring the poverty and distributional impact of the global crisis for developing countries is not easy, given the … addressing questions like who are being affected by the crisis and by how much, and who are vulnerable to falling into poverty if … literature, to measure the poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks by linking macro projections with pre …

impact in developing countries. This paper uses a micro-simulation approach to assess the poverty and distributional effects … of the crisis in the Philippines. The authors find increases in both the level and the depth of aggregate poverty. Income …