the long-run, growth reduces poverty. Yet, growth in output - per se - is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition … for poverty reduction in the short-term. The paper uses a number of parametric and non-parametric methodologies to assess … the relation between growth and poverty in Kazakhstan, a country that experienced rapid growth and poverty reduction in …

, both income poverty and inequality have decreased significantly and growth has been 'pro-poor', which is explained by … changes in inequality accounting for almost all the changes in poverty. The elasticity of poverty with respect to both growth …The paper uses a range of methods to assess changes in income, poverty and income distribution between 2001 and 2002 in …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …

included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the … performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … that we can reasonably impute poverty rates using an older household income survey and a more recent ProGres dataset for …