Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …

strong relationship between economic freedom, poverty reduction and income inequality. Results reveal that larger the …. -- economic freedom indicators ; pro-poor growth ; poverty ; inequality ; Pakistan … business freedom and / or trade freedom, greater the economic growth. This will ultimately reduce poverty in the country …

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …

information on health and education. However, like its predecessor, it fails to account for the inequality with which the benefits …

We review The Great Indian Poverty Debate edited by Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel. The volume has great value as a … survey of the complex issues involved in estimating poverty in India, which have recently been the subject of substantial … controversy. However, the volume has notable omissions. The official poverty lines presently applied in India are of doubtful …

We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic … can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective … instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining …

This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in public spending, human capital … investment and other variables associated with changes in poverty. We find that higher minimum wages are associated with lower …

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …

inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …