, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not …

among consumption variability, the level than nonfood consumption, the incidence of poverty, and the probability of being … ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …

some caution must be exercised in equating these effects with reductions in poverty. The conditions under which immanent … causal links between increased economic activity and reductions in poverty for granted.Chapter 3 examines patterns of … capacity to alleviate poverty and enhance food security at the national level than the quasi-peasant forms traditionally …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

the development of the state. The multiple roles of credit have generated growth, helped in poverty reduction, but also … correlated, for instance, the strong negative relationship between income and the Human Poverty Index. The study, therefore …