that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary … poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of … corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate …

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

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

The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other … results to impute income in the MECOVI 2007 survey. In this way, we calculate various measures of poverty and indigence, and … poverty and indigence in Bolivia, however this effect is small. The most important results are evident in the headcount index …

obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyse the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to the other EU-15 countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. The latter … decreasing. The cross country analysis yields several groups of countries according to their values of poverty and richness …