Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that …

children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality.s actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

domestic prices. Under perfect pass-through, the mandate leads to a reduction in rural poverty by about 39 million people, and … poverty increase by a total of 8 million people. Our study suggests that the US biofuel mandate may lead to modest increase in …

The approach to measure poverty in terms of financial deprivation has been widely criticised in the literature of … welfare and wellbeing. It is argued that to understand the complex phenomenon of poverty or to evaluate household or … individual wellbeing, a multidimensional exercise is imperative. This research quantifies the level of multidimensional poverty …

significant efforts made in Uruguay in recent years to reduce poverty and extreme poverty, a significant number of households …