This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … major economic policy implemented in Cameroon during this period. A double calibration technique within a micro …

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 …

, 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 …

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

The puzzle of why the cycle of poverty persists and upward socioeconomic mobility is so difficult has long captivated … scholars and the public alike. Yet with all of the attention that has been paid to poverty, the crucial role of the law …, particularly state and local law, in perpetuating poverty is largely ignored. This Article offers a new theory of poverty, one that …

present a case study using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in the sixth section. The final section presents …

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … major economic policy implemented in Cameroon during this period. A double calibration technique within a micro …

This paper proposes a class of decomposable poverty measures. It incorporates ideas of flexible minimum basic … poverty measure can be used in a straightforward manner to derive a metric to evaluate the efficiency of the public transfer …