found. Finally, I argue that poverty estimation based on national account consumption means and estimates of inequality from … decline of poverty over time, but the magnitude of the adjustment is country- and year-specific. …

We simulate the impact of actual food price increase between June 2006 and June 2008 on poverty across different areas … households, the opposite is true for the poverty gap and poverty severity measures, because poor agricultural households are …

of providing economic security for the senior citizens and preventing old age poverty. The 2004 and 2014 pension reforms … oil prices adversely affected the asset returns of pension funds management bourgeoning vulnerabilities to old age poverty … measures to reduce social insecurity and vulnerability to old age poverty. The government should consider promoting the …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

This paper measures the impact of price changes on poverty using the Philippines as an example. The impact of price … changes is captured by the price elasticity of poverty for three widely used poverty measures, namely, headcount ratio …, poverty gap ratio, and severity of poverty. An empirically operational price index called the price index for the poor is …

This paper develops a methodology to measure the impact of price changes on poverty measured by an entire class of … additive separable poverty measures. This impact is captured by means of price elasticity of poverty. The total effect of … changes in price on poverty is explained in terms of two components. The first component is the income effect of the change in …

-tocountry policy variations in the inflation-poverty reduction causal nexus in selected sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from 1981 … across countries in the inflation-poverty reduction causal nexus, this study uses robust Hatemi-J data decomposition … existing studies, the panel and country-specific findings exhibit several dimensions of asymmetric causality in the inflation-poverty …