inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality …Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our …

We review the origins of the dollar-a-day poverty line, discuss historical poverty and inequality trends, and forecast … poverty rates until 2030 using a new fractional response approach. Three findings stand out. First, global poverty reduction … since 1981 has been rapid but regional trends are heterogeneous. Second, the pace of poverty reduction at 1.25 a day will …

estimate income and inequality (semi-)elasticities of poverty for the 2$ a day and 1.25$ a day poverty lines. The models fit …The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty …

In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … Santiago should try to measure segregation based on income and, especially, poverty. The main goal of this paper is to … still exist. It's for this reason that poverty and education should have a higher priority than segregation in the public …

coexistence of acceptable levels of development and, at the same time, worrying poverty conditions of broad groups of people … continue to have, in the current time as in past decades, high levels of poverty and low rates of development. In the case of … Mexico, it was observed an inverse relation, based on HDI and FGT indexes, between development and poverty. Therefore, the …

of chronically poor households (poverty-induced vulnerability) - the focus of traditional poverty maps - and the share of … households showing a significant probability of falling into poverty (risk-induced vulnerability). As an application of the …Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …