slow. Forty percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and income inequality has been worsening. This paper … also probes into the trends in poverty and distribution of income and access to food through markets. …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985–99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the …

services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …

actual public spending is shifting towards poverty-reducing activities incountries with a PRGF program. In particular, the …

Vulnerability is today identified as a major cause of poverty and underdevelopment. Microfinance arises as an efficient …

Poverty affects currently near half of Burkinabé that is why it is become one of the main concerns of the authorities … with various level of development. These inequalities brought about regional huge disparities according to poverty …, rainfall, cotton production, road etc. Among these variables, three turn to be relevant on regional poverty. It concerns …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …

poverty effects of trade liberalization in Latin America. Our survey classifies the large number of papers on the subject … according to the welfare measure they use: inequality (on wages and household income) or poverty. Our survey shows that a sound … inequality and poverty. (2)The Macro-Micro approach (Bourguingon et. al, 2008) which combines a CGE with a micro-simulation model …