An Asian poverty line? Issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- A poverty line contingent on reference groups …: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Jacques Silber … -- Concepts and measurment of vulnerablility to poverty and other issues: a review of literature / Tomoki Fujii -- Measuring the …

Given a poverty line, a person who is non-poor (poor) currently may not be treated as non-poor (poor) in a vulnerable … situation. This paper looks at the impact of vulnerability on the poverty line. The poverty line is adjusted in the presence of … vulnerability such that the utility of a person at the current poverty line and that at the adjusted poverty line become identical …

This paper proposes a decomposition framework for quantifying contributions of the determinants of poverty to spatial … differences or temporal changes in poverty. This framework is then applied to address the issue why poverty incidence is higher in … in resource utilization not to less endowment of resources. Also, trade became poverty-reducing in coastal China in the …

Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005–2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing … the percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. Poverty reduction was …

Given a poverty line, a person who is non-poor (poor) currently may not be treated as non-poor (poor) in a vulnerable … situation. The poverty line is adjusted in the presence of vulnerability such that the utility of a person at the current … poverty line and that at the adjusted poverty line become identical. Using an additive model of vulnerability, it is shown …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing …