Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable … improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual … incomes, or a distribution with the smallest mean that is compatible with a complete absence of poverty). Real analysis offers …

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the selfemployed workers in Mexico over the … and investment liberalization. For the first decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among the self …-employed increased; as the economy stabilized and the country saw economic growth inequality started to go down, but poverty kept …

manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly … desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted … constructed. Some properties of a specific ‘group-sensitive’ poverty index are appraised, and the advantage of having a ‘flexible …