Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

Given the lack of longitudinal data for Central Asia, research on poverty has largely ignored the time dimension. This …-2009 period. The panel data provides an opportunity to measure chronic poverty levels and poverty transitions for the first time … in Kazakhstan. We find that, despite the rapid and substantial reduction in poverty in the country since the turn of the …

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 …

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 …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

poverty and, other hand, to identify the existence of child welfare inequality and then analyse their sources in four WAEMU … countries like: Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Niger and Togo. Basing our methodology on multidimensional poverty approach, the … results show that some factors explain the child poverty in these countries: the access to the vitamin A, the quality of …

The increasing interest in multidimensional poverty and well-being analysis has added complexity to the way these … attempt to conceptualize the nature of the desired hierarchy among the selected poverty dimensions. The aim of this paper is … incorporation of these into a poverty index are derived and their implications in terms of the understanding of poverty are …

The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …