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 …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …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 …

, health and standard of living. Our findings indicate that Cambodia shows the highest level of poverty, followed by Indonesia … poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in … Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general framework proposed by Silber and Yalonetzky (2013), this paper …

potentially change the vulnerability to poverty using a panel data set in Indonesia. We focus on the effect of drought and flood …, two of the commonly observed disasters there. Our simulation results indicate that vulnerability to poverty may increase … substantially as a result of climate change in Indonesia. …

Growing inequality is one important problem for a developing country, and Indonesia is no exception. Narrowing the gap … data in Indonesia (Indonesia Family Life Survey), we are motivated to investigate the source of income inequality in … Indonesia. The approach employed in this study is regression-based inequality decomposition using the Shapley value …

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies …

In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the … Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper …