This paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the … decomposability properties of poverty measures based on a counting approach. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire and Foster … index with alternative poverty indices that are sensitive to inequality. Poverty is estimated using Demographic and Health …

Zimbabwe experienced the first hyperinflation of the 21st century. The government terminated the reporting of official … inflation statistics, however, prior to the final explosive months of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation. We demonstrate that standard …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …