Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of … standard against a richer group, thereby capturing a notion of change in relative income, which embodies the influence of … others' wellbeing on the judgment of the group's own situation. The indices, and related relative income change (RIC) curves …

paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …