This report analyzes the evolution of poverty and inequality in the LAC region from 1986 to 1996 with projections to … 1998. It reviews the policies which have been advocated or implemented to reduce poverty. The report combines the results … literature on issues related to poverty, inequality, and social policy in LAC. Some of the theoretical developments introduce new …

This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing … countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher fraction of children are in poverty than are … adults. However, it is difficult to make even simple poverty comparisons of this sort. A perennial difficulty is the passage …

alarming with respect to economic well-being as the poverty level especially among the STs. Slow progress in expected change in …

This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty … itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the … extreme poverty line which is insufficient for multiple reasons. Second, we turn to the question of the location of global …

effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer … understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is important for effective targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria …. Investigating the potential relationship between land access and household poverty-related outcomes is of great relevance for both …

Is there a link between sexuality and poverty? If so, has this relationship changed over time? What anti-poverty … policies might be relevant to address issues related to sexuality and poverty? The report synthesises literature and adds top …

pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty ranking across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …