poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

The transmigration program in Gorontalo Province plays an important role in poverty reduction. The districts of …-Likert scale. The objectives of this research are: (1) to measure the multidimensional poverty level of transmigrant and … local households, (2) to determine the impact of the transmigration program on poverty reduction and (3) to identify the …

Poverty reduction has become a top goal in the socio-economic development strategies of countries and a topic of … interest for researchers. A number of prior empirical studies have identified the importance of financial inclusion to poverty … reduction. However, most of these studies assess the effect of financial inclusion on income poverty reduction. There are …

How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …