The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

The concept of poverty needs a clear and practical definition. This article examines the basic needs approach as well … choices. Given the differences between these two approaches, they lead to different poverty reduction strategies. Moreover … understanding poverty …

poverty in Namibia. Based on official national data sources - some specially adjusted for this analysis by the Central Bureau … of Statistics - the Human Development Index (HDI) and Human Poverty Index (HPI) for Namibia are computed and analysed. A … language groups. Similarly, by broadening the definition of poverty to focus on deprivation in a range of essential …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …