among low and even middle income countries. It helps mitigate income poverty and inequality, and has been shown to have a … both of these composite indices of poverty measurement. The results show that increases in the income from a cash grant … the major channels through which these grants work in reducing multidimensional poverty and inequality. …

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that … those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …