The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …

provinces. This has in turn affected significantly the dynamics of household poverty in Rwanda in the same period. Using a small … destroyed or who lost land ran a higher risk of falling into poverty. This was particularly the case for households who were …

Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm growth was least … effective at reducing poverty in states where initial conditions were poor in terms of rural development and human resources … economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty.The elasticities of measured poverty to farm …

Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of proportionate convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean … income levels and the link between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that heterogeneity in this link affects the …

$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 …

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 …