Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … welfare and wage data from Mexico, this note shows that it is easier for safety nets to offset the impact of risk on wage … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …

end of 2002, poverty is likely to be high and to have risen in recent years even compared to its high postconflict level …. The first objective of this chapter is to estimate the share of the population in poverty in 2002, predict how it may have … evolved since then, and assess the levels of growth that will be required to reduce poverty measures in the future. The …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

welfare of this policy shift. Initial estimates based on these two surveys suggested that there had been an increase in … poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit …