, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … theory-based framework designed to provide a coherent evaluation of the distributional impact of local public services. The … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population …

zero. Using the estimated optimal weights, we compute estimates of true income per capita and $1/day poverty rates for the … developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … of Chen and Ravallion (2010) or of the survey-based poverty literature more generally …

negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of … and between countries. The statistical relationships between growth, inequality and poverty are discussed, as is the …

; poverty ; multi-resolution analysis ; income distribution …

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference … minimum wage. The Formby-Bishop-Kim paper compares the poverty reducing effects of the minimum wage to two alternative poverty …-Kalb-Scutella compare alternative approaches to measuring poverty and inequality in a discrete hours model. …

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement continues the series … theory, economic mobility, issues in empirical estimation, and empirical studies. The theory papers address the link between … estimation papers address data weighting and equivalent scale issues. The final section presents empirical papers on poverty and …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …