This paper contributes to the analysis of spatial poverty in Ecuador by deepening the understanding of the constraints …

values of frequency and breadth of multidimensional poverty in Iran. It distinguishes specific regions as Tehran, other urban … areas, and rural areas and it reveals that the proportion of rural areas in multidimensional poverty has increased from 1999 …

This paper addresses the potential effects of the Doha round of trade negotiations on poverty and income distribution … distribution and poverty analysis. Of particular importance is the fact that the representative household hypothesis is replaced by …,055 Brazilian households and 263,938 adults. Poverty and income distribution indices are computed over the entire sample of …

"Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …

Minot and Baulch combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate … results with data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each … province. The results show that rural poverty is concentrated in 10 provinces in the Northern Uplands, 2 provinces in the …