vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income …Measurement of the middle class has recently come to the center of policy debate in middle-income countries as they … -associated with a low probability of falling into poverty— which could define the lower bound of the middle class. It looks at …

and also at within the emergent countries has caused the polarization toward the margins of income distribution. The paper … finds that the power systems, the power relationships and the fiscal system could be responsible for the actual income …

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

We reexamine the association between poverty, the middle class, and institutional outcomes using a newly developed … cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditure. When the size of … the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US dollars a day in purchasing power …

with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …

This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on … incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution. Thus, one contribution of the … paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last …

time, greater consumer satisfaction, the elimination of poverty and greater public support for redistributive efforts to … growth does not lead to greater happiness. In attempting to solve this puzzle, he canvasses three currents of thought in the …