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 …

, TFPs have generally been effective in reducing poverty and indigence. In Brazil rural social assistance pensions cut the … incidence of destitution among poor older people by 95 per cent. In Chile TFPs considerably improved their poverty reduction …

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …