As shown empirically for many transition economies, even small changes in assumptions on economies of size and adult equivalence scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of poverty and its distribution across households and individuals. Since such exercises are then used...

This paper extends familiar results on the optimal pricing of publicly provided goods and price cap regulations in a stochastic dominance framework. The key advantage is that the assessment as to whether pricing or price cap reforms are poverty reducing or welfare improving is not contingent on...

This article discusses the impact of structural adjustment on poverty and inequality and overall social welfare in Pakistan over the adjustment decade (1988–99) based on household surveys. It provides an indepth analysis of poverty during the adjustment decade as well as an account of...

From the 1980s, the international literature on the concept and measurement of poverty began to address the temporal dimension and the duration of the phenomenon, starting the field on poverty dynamics. The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamic characteristics and the cycles of poverty of...

Ferreira and Leite investigate whether micro-simulation techniques can shed light on the types of policies that should be adopted by countries wishing to meet their Millennium Development Goals. They compare two families of micro-simulations. The first family of micro-simulations decomposes...