could be very significant in explaining regional variations in income and poverty. The major question this paper tries to …

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …

This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of … so on. Yet the paper demonstrates that in all three countries the poverty estimates produced from census data are both …

greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the … poverty in the different parts of the country. One size does not fit all. Deliberate effort of the government in …

This paper analyses regional data on inequality and poverty in Russia during 1994-2000 using published series from the … an internationally high level. Based on these two findings, the paper projects dynamics of inequality and poverty in … will become virtually free of poverty. Finally, the paper relates fluctuations in inequality within regions to a set of …

This paper applies a new decomposition technique to the study of variations in poverty across the regions of Russia …. The procedure, which is based on the Shapley value in cooperative game theory, allows the deviation in regional poverty … local prices. Contrary to expectation, regional poverty variations turn out to be due more to differences in inequality …

This paper proposes a decomposition framework for quantifying contributions of the determinants of poverty to spatial … differences or temporal changes in poverty. This framework is then applied to address the issue why poverty incidence is higher in … in resource utilization not to less endowment of resources. Also, trade became poverty-reducing in coastal China in the …

This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in … estimator. The changes in regional levels of poverty and real per capita public health expenditure are identified to be … spending on life expectancy is larger for those regions that experience higher incidences of poverty. The paper also finds that …