inequality and poverty. The results are based on newly developed microsimulation models for Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, South …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, selfemployment remains constrained to low …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty … is scrutinized, link by link. The paper then moves on to examine other channels in the globalization-poverty nexus that …

conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well … measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the … goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of agency …

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and … nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …

process of globalization affects different aspects and dimensions of poverty in the developing world. It examines how these … numerous channels interact, as the net effects on poverty depend on the relative strength of the positive and negative forces …