The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … inequality does not change. The head count, the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap ratios decreased by 2.5%, 1.1% and 0 …

; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure, and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of …

This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about … the need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household … vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the …

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining …

This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …