, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

The econometric literature has been unable to establish a robust association between foreign aid and growth and poverty … countries. The model quantifies three sources of poverty: (i) lack of access to international capital, (ii) low schooling and … high fertility (a poverty trap), and (iii) antigrowth domestic fiscal policy. We analyze policies designed to address each …

median equivalized disposable income is applied for this criterion as the poverty threshold. The national income variable is … is oriented on the cluster of population living on income below the poverty threshold. For this population we calculate … of the population living bellow poverty threshold at least to the poverty threshold level.Special section of the paper is …

This publication examines trends in growth, consumption, and inequality to construct a poverty profile for Cambodia …. Recognizing that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, it also explores (i) nonmonetary poverty and the Millennium Development … Goals, (ii) predictive poverty rates generated by the Commune Database, and (iii) perceptions of poverty and well-being. An …

This paper presents a new methodology to study poverty in Venezuela using the tools of fuzzy logic. Through fuzzy logic … the authors were able to come up with the design and use of poverty lines, instead of the traditional lines, to identify … households in poverty in the various sectors of the city of Merida. For this purpose, the following poverty related variables …

Surveys of self-rated poverty, done in the Philippines at the national level 56 times over 1983-2001, quarterly since … 1992, demonstrate that poverty is volatile even in the short run. The self-rated poor are about twice as many as the poor … officially defined. The official poverty line meets the subjective needs of only half of the self-rated poor. Surveys into food-poverty …

This paper presents a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food … and nonfood poverty thresholds. Although one cannot completely eliminate the value judgments inherent in the construction … of poverty thresholds, this model helps to make the ad hoc assumptions that are generally made more justifiable. The …

several of the goals. But many countries, most especially in Africa, will not. The projections show that poverty will become … more heavily concentrated in Africa in both relative and absolute terms. In addition, whilst urban poverty will increase …, in 2015 poverty will remain a predominately rural phenomenon, with 60-70 per cent of the poor (depending on the measure …

for private enterprise and sectoral strategies; and poverty reduction and social protection programs. Economic growth in …