measurement of poverty we calculate measures of literacy that are sensitive to the distribution of literacy within those defined …

This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing … countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher fraction of children are in poverty than are … adults. However, it is difficult to make even simple poverty comparisons of this sort. A perennial difficulty is the passage …

In light of recent results, the fight against poverty in Latin America has been far from satisfactory. The standard …

-headed households to those with a male head. These households are characterised by different forms of poverty that impinge on their … female-headed households’ productivity is lower than that found for male-headed households. General poverty alleviation …