This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons … of poverty comparisons show that: children with the lowest probability of survival are from households with the lowest … level of assets; and poverty orderings for child survival by assets are robust to the choice of the poverty line and to the …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …

This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020. The paper asks the … already live in countries where the total cost of ending extreme poverty is not prohibitively high as a percentage of GDP. And … to end at least extreme poverty. This would imply a reframing of global poverty as largely a matter of domestic …

Putting the combat against poverty to the fore as the main objective of the development process has raised the issue of … the linkage between economic growth, inequality and poverty. There is now a growing agreement that both the rate and the … distributional impact of growth are important in fighting poverty. This means that pro-poorness of a given growth rate is more …

We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic … can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective … instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining …

We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen since 1990 in light of alternative assumptions about … the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the developing … world. We use two poverty indicators: the aggregate headcount and the headcount ratio, and consider two widely …

and poverty reduction. For this purpose, multilevel analysis approaches are followed to capture the likely effects of some … public expenditure on growth, inequality, and poverty. One of the most important results of this study is that policies aimed … at enhancing the purchase power of the poor are more effective in reducing poverty than policies aimed to improve human …

We propose a new methodology to revise the international poverty line (IPL) after Ravallion et al. (2009) using the … same database, but augmented with new variables to take into account social inclusion in the definition of poverty along …

We review the origins of the dollar-a-day poverty line, discuss historical poverty and inequality trends, and forecast … poverty rates until 2030 using a new fractional response approach. Three findings stand out. First, global poverty reduction … since 1981 has been rapid but regional trends are heterogeneous. Second, the pace of poverty reduction at 1.25 a day will …

on Grameen Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™) for Cambodia applied to a sample of borrowers randomly extracted from a … questions discussed here are: Is microcredit targeted to poor people? Has the poverty rate of the sample changed in last six … months? and What percentage of male vs. female clients is poor? We found an average poverty likelihood of about 8 …