; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either …

evaluating access across the region?s physical (location), poverty, and income considerations. The paper also analyzes inequality …The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast … compounded by the unequal distribution of existing access for households. This study improves understanding of this inequality by …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our qualitative conclusions are likely to apply to other surveys. We link … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a … strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty … inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has followed … political participation only as a result of losing their job, nor do those affected by poverty do so due to loss of income …

in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percent poor in 2004 from 29 percent to 13.5 percent …, estimates which are robust to different measures of the poverty line. We find that, while there are significant behavioral side … effects of many programs, their aggregate impact is very small and does not affect the magnitude of the aggregate poverty …