This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

regarding Minsky's early involvement in the "War on Poverty." This paper will trace the development of Minsky's thinking on …

market, together with the increase in the transfers received by households, results in an increase in their income. Poverty …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

We survey the latest research on the linkages between international trade, regional integration, poverty and food … extensive literature on the impacts of trade reform on poverty outcomes, research on the actual and potential effects of trade …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …