USA is of our own making. US taxpayer financed agricultural subsidies render Mexican farmers unable to compete. Poverty … been ineffective (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2009). Part of what is perceived to be an illegal immigration problem in the … fuels migration (Peace, 2009). If US taxpayers are financing agricultural subsidies that encourage immigration to the USA …

with previous studies, I find that the wage level of AFDC recipients in Missouri was too low to escape poverty, despite …

inequality patterns. It also reviews developments at the extremes of the income distribution, namely poverty, top incomes as well …

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

This paper models the dynamic interactions between growth and distribution in the analysis of the behavior of poverty … over time. The model permits formal analysis of the factors that led to the growth collapse as well as the rise in poverty … performance during this period-- in terms of the rate of acceleration of growth, changes in poverty and extent of inequality …

outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

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