Comparative analysis of poverty dynamics—incidence, transitions, and persistence—can yield important insights about the … nature of poverty and the effectiveness of alternative policy responses. This manuscript compares poverty dynamics in four … in the 1990s. The data indicate that poverty persistence is higher in North America than in Europe; for example, despite …

differences in poverty among the population over age sixty-five and the current debate on the future of the Social Security system. …

We are here today and tomorrow to examine concentrated poverty - that is, poverty that affects more than 40 percent of …

This paper presents an update on the poverty and income distribution situation in Chile during the 90s. The analysis … shows unambiguously that there was less poverty between 1994 and 1998 than in all earlier years, whether poverty is measured …

first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static …

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the … total change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of these three components. This decomposition can serve inter alia to … integrate horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the poverty alleviation assessment of social and economic programs. The use …

this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and … welfare increases in the short run. The average poverty gap and the squared poverty gap also follow the same pattern as …