from Colombia. Using a cross-entropy estimation method, we make efficient use of prior information about the structure of … show that there is a large degree of upward mobility in Colombia, especially at the bottom of the income distribution and …

This report reviews the Priority Action Program (PAP) for Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) implementation in … Burkina Faso. The PAP makes the PRSP operational and increases the visibility of public policies in the area of poverty … the overall poverty rate to 43.3 percent, with rural and urban poverty rates amounting to 48.1 percent and 16.6 percent …

Poverty and unemployment remained high in Botswana. The shortcomings of the labor market policies are responsible for a …

vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income … -associated with a low probability of falling into poverty— which could define the lower bound of the middle class. It looks at … absolute thresholds, challenging the view that people just above the poverty line are actually part of the middle class. In an …

evolution of rural poverty and inequality in Latin America since the early 1980's. The authors conclude that after 20 years of … changes both in poverty rates and in the distribution of income. The authors discuss the territorial dimension of inequality … experienced an improvement (relative to the national average changes) in income, income distribution, and poverty rates. The …

likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …