income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

large price shocks with respect to poverty analysis. Using a Ugandan household survey data set and an estimated flexible … is twofold. First, to provide an indication whether it is worthwhile to invest in the estimation of a demand system for … similar consumption side poverty impact analyses. Second, to provide a sense of the magnitude in the loss of fidelity from …

Recent food price increases reportedly caused significant numbers of households to fall into poverty, particularly in … the developing world. Most research into the welfare effects of these food price changes assumes constant demand or … approximates second order substitution effects. Poverty forecasts with these assumptions may overestimate or underestimate the …

Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The paper introduces …

peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the … with almost no machinery or purchased inputs at all, b) the income of a typical farm household is below a poverty line …

Analysen zu Einkommensungleichheit, Armut und Mobilität in Deutschland basieren überwiegend auf den Mikrodaten der … Bildungscharakteristika gibt, was einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf Ausmaß und Struktur von Ungleichheit und Armut haben kann. Während in …

poverty and income distribution in Bolivia. The simulation results suggest that FDI inflows enhance economic growth and reduce … poverty. However, the income distribution typically becomes more unequal. In particular, FDI widens income disparities between … urban and rural areas. The Bolivian government may promote growth-enhancing and poverty-alleviating effects of FDI by …