measured extent of this reduction varies, has been confirmed by different methods. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions …, hence this paper explores the improvement in other social deprivations. An analysis of poverty from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty in India between 1999 and 2006 using National Family and Health Surveys. We find a strong reduction in …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the expected increase in global crises threaten to push millions into poverty … multidimensional approach to poverty alleviation and prevention through livelihood and resilience-based programming …

Indonesia has lowered the total poverty rate by less than 10%. Earlier poverty measurements in Indonesia suggest that … transient poverty is more prevalent. We argue that, when employing the Equally Distributed Equivalent (EDE) approach and … disaggregated poverty lines, chronic poverty is more prevalent than transient poverty. We estimated chronic and transient poverty in …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

of human welfare, particularly poverty and inequality. Combined with major improvements in the coverage and quality of …

poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in … in the incidence of poverty. Productivity performance has not been uniform across the agricultural and industrial sectors …, but both have contributed to aggregate growth and poverty reduction. Unfortunately economic reform has also brought …

poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …

that creates a “high education trap.” This results in poverty and perpetuation of child work in households with highly …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

, including a broad range of poverty and inequality measures. The procedure we propose requires the existence of a set of … use our adjustment procedure to estimate poverty counts from the 55th Round of the Indian National Sample Survey, a large … likely to understate poverty relative to the previous rounds. We provide evidence supporting the plausibility of the …