While the poverty reductions in the Philippines in 2012–2018 are modest compared to what Vietnam, China or Indonesia … decomposition of poverty and inequality in 2000–2018 using official national household surveys. We find the growth since 2012 …, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …

Ranade (1998). Overall, this approach has found a supremacy of the incidence of non-monetary poverty by gender but not …The evaluation of the poverty of beneficiaries is a topic rarely raised as is the impact of microfinance. The different … methodology of identifying the poor based on the micro-multidimensional measure of poverty developed by Chakravarty, Mukherjee and …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

This paper explores the role of basic pensions in reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Using the most recent … different generosity levels. Simulations suggest that basic pension benefits have sizable impact on poverty decline among … household, with elderly members, which translates into large decreases in aggregate poverty measures. The paper also analyzes …

$2 a day poverty headcount measure to changes in mean income and inequality significantly decreases with initial … inequality and the ratio poverty line over mean income - taken as proxies for the initial density of income near the poverty line …. Variations in these proxies account for the large cross regional differences in the income elasticity of poverty during the 1980s …