point is afforded by the status of a "focus axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in … the present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty …

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

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …

This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …

It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … poor/insecure cluster into the secure/prosperous cluster. Nevertheless, we do identify five different stylised patterns of … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …