, 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 …

information, it is already a challenge to derive interesting parameter like inequality or poverty for the individual countries … and global income, poverty and inequality for the period 1980-2013 only based on income quintiles of 178 countries …

This paper explores theoretical linkages between poverty traps, economic inequality and delinquency in a perfect … that the existence of a poverty trap under conditions of sufficient initial economic inequality and costly indivisible … increase on relative poverty has an ambiguous effect on long run delinquency rates while an increased focus on law enforcement …

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 …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty ranking across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …