Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of inequality and … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of …

source on inequality in total income. This note extends the methodology to take into account income variability. …

?; (c) What are the determinants of migration?; (d) What is the impact of remittances on poverty, inequality, and … can be expected in the future?; (b) To what extent does migration increase per capita income and thereby reduce poverty …

and in the south, and in some cases (for example, for poverty) we estimate how much additional progress is likely to be …

Oaxaca? How much progress was achieved in the 1990s toward reducing poverty in these states? Why are households in these … states so poor? Specifically, does their poverty result from a lack of assets or from low returns to existing assets? Finally …

Several sub-Saharan African countries have succeeded at increasing their economic growth rate in recent years, and this … has translated into substantial poverty reduction according to objective measures based on household survey data. At the … same time, many people do not feel that the poverty situation has been improving in their country or community, and this is …

Africa in order to contribute to an assessment of the benefits of growth (or the cost of a lack of growth) for poverty … achieved high levels of growth in the 1990s, and that also experienced important reductions in poverty, even though growth was … was an initial perception that growth did not lead to much poverty reduction. The more detailed analysis of poverty …

benefit from rapid economic growth, but concerns have been expressed about a potential increase in inequality. Two household … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

Conflicts and political instability have been serious constraints to growth in Guinea-Bissau. Of special concern was …, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …

Due in part to 40 years of cyclical violence, economic growth in Burundi has remained well below the sub-Saharan Africa … the Government drive the changes needed to achieve sustainable growth. This chapter provides an overview of past and … current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …