effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a … separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income …

on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90 primary studies, our results identify that the threshold income for … calorie demand transition is 459.8 USD in 2012 prices (PPP). It implies that the transitional threshold for calorie …

Knowing the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is crucial for understanding the effects of taxation on taxpayer … composition of their compensation than lower-income individuals. This paper considers the taxable income elasticity when … individuals can shift income across tax bases and thereby defer taxation. We decompose the elasticity of taxable income into a …