Poverty affects currently near half of Burkinabé that is why it is become one of the main concerns of the authorities … with various level of development. These inequalities brought about regional huge disparities according to poverty …, rainfall, cotton production, road etc. Among these variables, three turn to be relevant on regional poverty. It concerns …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …

poverty effects of trade liberalization in Latin America. Our survey classifies the large number of papers on the subject … according to the welfare measure they use: inequality (on wages and household income) or poverty. Our survey shows that a sound … inequality and poverty. (2)The Macro-Micro approach (Bourguingon et. al, 2008) which combines a CGE with a micro-simulation model …

This article applies the concept of poverty as insufficiency of basic capabilities in measuring living conditions of … judgments of the people of Rio de Janeiro, who generally regard favela dwellers as poor, and those of poverty experts, who …

welfare and poverty. Our paper seeks to fill some of these gaps proposing an empirical analysis of the role of remittances as … a tool for reducing inequality and covering households against poverty and social exclusion risks. The empirical ….e. remittances) are included. The results show that remittances are statistically significant in terms of poverty reduction even if …

This paper argues that interest on consumer debt must be taken into account when measuring poverty and inequality … conventional government statistics. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, we make estimates of poverty and inequality that take …

indicators to measure the gendered impacts, including income poverty (Foster-Greer-Thorbecke [FGT] Indices), time poverty … (leisure), capability poverty (literacy and infant mortality), and welfare (Equivalent Variation [EV]). The simulation results … workload, deteriorating capabilities, and increasing relative income poverty. However, the effects remained gender neutral or …