Poverty rates calculated on the basis of different definitions of consumption may reveal substantial biases, but under … poverty rates are only rarely based on identical underlying definitions of welfare. The authors examine the sensitivity of … poverty rates calculated from alternative definitions of consumption. They consider what theory can say about the direction of …

Ecuador Poverty Assessment (World Bank, 2000c), which focused mainly on poverty and social services, but also provides … work in order to provide policy recommendations that will help Ecuador and its government design an effective poverty …Ecuador's poor economic performance is not solely nor mainly the result of high volatility, but rather the result of …