. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- Stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

This paper investigates dynamic effects of remittances on households' poverty and income distribution. Using state … time a dose-response function approach to assess poverty effects due to variations in the time-length of receiving … remittances. Our results suggest that remittances alleviate both absolute and relative poverty levels and lead to a marginal …

opportunity - and empirical applications - are reviewed, and implications for the measurement of poverty and of the rate of …