The South African government has set as a policy objective the halving of poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this … goal has not yet been defined. This article frames government’s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of … specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty headcount ratio, using newly released income and expenditure survey data. With …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

suggest that these demographic factors can account for a of the actual increase in poverty and inequality between 1980 y 1992. … distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty … and inequality- by applying microeconometric decompositions techniques. In particular, we simulate the equivalized …

level, inequality and poverty for this region between 1986 and 2006. To circumvent data availability issues, we propose a … were well above other non-metropolitan areas while inequality measures were relatively low. Mean income subsequently … dropped below comparable locations while inequality rose. Although income levels had partially recovered by 2006, inequality …

Italy to estimate the growth incidence curves and the income and inequality elasticities of poverty. Growth strongly … determines the patterns of poverty; however, inequality appears to have strikingly characterized it as well. A 1% increase in … poverty elasticities, which in turn depend on the initial conditions of inequality and the initial level of development. …

The present work estimates poverty and inequality indices in various groups that are known to have high contributions … to poverty and inequality, such as farmers, pensioners and families with 3 or more children. Using the bootstrap … technique, we estimate confidence intervals for these indices and examine if the decrease of poverty and inequality during the …

-growth story. While in the majority of countries, growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates …