In 2006, poverty incidence in the Philippines went up by 3 percentage points from 2003, marking a reversal against the … downward trend in previous poverty estimates. This upward trend went against expectations after the Philippine economy … further add to the already difficult work of reducing poverty. The MDG deadline looms ahead and time is running out in the …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …

This paper reports levels of income inequality and poverty in four Central and Eastern European countries: the Czech … inequality and relative poverty rates, using both local and national relative poverty lines, for the most recent waves of data …

In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the selfemployed workers in Mexico over the … and investment liberalization. For the first decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among the self …-employed increased; as the economy stabilized and the country saw economic growth inequality started to go down, but poverty kept …

No Poverty' and 'Reduced Inequalities' are two out of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations …. Nowadays, Kenya faces high levels of poverty and inequality: 36 percent of the population live below the poverty line and the … reduce poverty and promote income equality in Kenya. Using econometric models we show the effect of consumption taxes on …