differences in poverty among the population over age sixty-five and the current debate on the future of the Social Security system. …

We are here today and tomorrow to examine concentrated poverty - that is, poverty that affects more than 40 percent of …

This paper presents an update on the poverty and income distribution situation in Chile during the 90s. The analysis … shows unambiguously that there was less poverty between 1994 and 1998 than in all earlier years, whether poverty is measured …

first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static …

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the … total change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of these three components. This decomposition can serve inter alia to … integrate horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the poverty alleviation assessment of social and economic programs. The use …

this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … nationally representative household survey of 2000 is used. The simulation involves a doubling of the import tariffs on textiles … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and …

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program, Taipei Family Development Accounts, which …

poor - instead of the entire transition matrix. Various poverty duration models accommodating unobserved population …