This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare … as the choice of inequality and poverty aversion parameters, and that of the poverty line). The elasticities are also …

The present study examines multiplicity in wealth dynamics and associated poverty traps in rural Ethiopia. Based on … theoretical models, I find empirical evidence for poverty traps for several crucial factor inputs for households in the Ethiopian …-level basin of attraction, but the initial conjecture of a poverty trap is not confirmed. This gives rise to a discussion of …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

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 argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians …

during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo …

This paper examines Uganda's progress on poverty reduction when poverty is measured in multiple dimensions. In … particular, I consider poverty measures that are defined across household expenditures per capita or household assets, children …'s health status, and in some cases, mother's literacy. The comparisons are robust to the choice of poverty line, poverty …

-monetary poverty for individual wellbeing or happiness in rural Bangladesh. The study is the first estimate of a wellbeing function for … between wellbeing and income. Being further below the poverty line – estimated using the depth-ofpoverty measure – was found …. Improvements in a multidimensional poverty index, constructed using indicators of household education, health and living standards …

Understanding poverty dynamics is crucial to target and tailor economic policies in developing countries like Nigeria … – a country at the risk of hosting about a quarter of all people living in poverty worldwide. To facilitate the targeting … of poverty-reducing interventions, we build a nationally representative panel dataset with more than a hundred covariates …