female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural areas …, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty decreased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

Accounting for environmental damage is relevant to how one measures the extent and severity of inequality and poverty … inequality and poverty measures for Brazil and Costa Rica. Unlike Khan, I test for different assumptions regarding the ecological … distribution. Provisional results indicate that inequality and poverty are understated, and that, under certain assumptions, both …

years, provides the income and employment data used in the construction of social welfare indicators, such as poverty … inequality. Indeed there is no reason to privilege national accounts over household surveys in the analysis of poverty and the … incomes of the poorest. Using the Casen 2011, this study assesses the impact of income adjustments on the poverty headcount …

the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from … 42% to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured with imputed income increases only from 36% to 40%, a much lower …

In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the … period from 1992 to 2014, using repeated cross-section household data. We first decompose the observed changes in poverty … contributor to poverty reduction in Mexico. In the second part of our analysis, we compile a unique panel dataset at the state …

Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combat-ing poverty and income … investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing poverty and income inequality, and the determinants and conditional … robust evidence that financial inclusion significantly reduces poverty rates and income inequality in developing countries …

, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions …, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of analysis, where institutions are linked to productivity and … poverty. This framework is applied to a comedor the author visited in 2001 and 2003. Through the diversity and intensity of …

This work assesses the changes in aggregate poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America during the … region for the period from 1970-1995. We find that poverty and inequality have not declined during the 1990s in spite of …. Our results show that even though there are differences in levels across countries, inequality and poverty in most of them …