This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

That poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon is no longer debatable. What remains a contentious issue is whether the … of poverty. This study employs the Alkire-Foster aggregation methodology, which preserves the "dashboard" of dimensions … of poverty, to systematically assess the magnitude, intensity, and sources of multidimensional poverty over the past two …

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very …

Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a … specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however …, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed in the identification exercise of poverty measurement, and many of these …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

point is afforded by the status of a "focus-axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in … the present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty …