After a synthetic presentation of the state of poverty and inequality in the world and the contradictions incurred by …

This chapter is concerned with issues arising from the construction of ethical measures of inequality and poverty. The … recent literature on measurement of inequality and poverty emphasizes the close connection between social welfare functions … and ethical indices of inequality and poverty. This chapter surveys the main issues in this literature. In particular, we …

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …

. Besides exploring cross-country variation in public education, how its low level can lead to a poverty trap and how its high …

econometric analysis of chronic poverty in Germany / Martin Biewen -- Defining and measuring extreme poverty / Paul Makdissi …This volume consists of a number of papers related to the theme of the dynamics of inequality and poverty. These are … subdivided into four separate parts. The five chapters in Part I of this volume are concerned with inequality and poverty over …