determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … poverty. …

determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a … traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest …

This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant … economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of gender inequalities: differences in labour market participation …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

This chapter discusses the measurement of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Latin America, and documents the … main patterns and trends. By providing an updated assessment of the level, changes and characteristics of poverty in the …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted …. The implications of directly incorporating group disparities into the measurement of poverty for poverty comparisons and … manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly …

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty … alleviation. It employs poverty decomposition and dominance analysis. The analysis was divided into four components: comparison … between male-headed and female-headed nonbeneficiary households. Results show that there is a large disparity in poverty …

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … to the poor within each population group (that is, poverty targeted transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …