welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the challenges of independence -- Estimating poverty and inequality …, poverty and distribution in the early twenty-first century -- Government policy interventions -- What have we learned … time. It examines the outcomes in the context of debates about economic growth, inequality and poverty alleviation which …

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 …

decline in poverty and inequality indicators. Yet, the sentiment of the overall population seems to point to worsening … groups. Using counterfactual decompositions, the paper dwells first on the dynamics observed behind the drop in poverty and … main driver behind poverty reduction, and that the drop in inequality was primarily driven by a regional catching-up effect …

decline in poverty and inequality indicators. Yet, the sentiment of the overall population seems to point to worsening … groups. Using counterfactual decompositions, the paper dwells first on the dynamics observed behind the drop in poverty and … main driver behind poverty reduction, and that the drop in inequality was primarily driven by a regional catching-up effect …