The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation …. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income-based, consumption-based, or entitlement-based. The variation in the concept of … poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptually interrelated …

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 …

of the MCCT-HSF beneficiaries, reviewed country experiences (in Chile, South Africa, India, and Brazil) support and …

This presentation is about poverty and redistribution in emerging economics. It was prepared for the Asian Development … Bank’s Distinguished Speakers Program held on 25 October 2011 at the ADB Headquarters. Various types of poverty alleviation …

Several studies report large and persistent differences in standards of living and poverty within a country. In this … paper, we study whether the observed differences in poverty incidence in urban areas are due to differences in the …, differences in the parameters are an important determinant of household income and poverty within a country …

During the 1990s, China's poverty declined significantly across a wide range of poverty lines. China's poor have … benefited much less from economic growth than the rich. Education is positively and significantly related to growth and poverty … attack poverty and inequality. Chen and Wang investigate recent trends in poverty and inequality in China, decomposing data …

actually increased for those below the poverty line. We also found that because inequality during the peak of the crisis in … 1999 was at its lowest level in 15 years, the poverty rate decreased very rapidly during the recovery between 1999 and 2002 …

CGE model is used to run a series of policy experiments. Poverty is found to increase slightly with the implementation of …. If an indirect tax is used, the incidence of poverty falls marginally, but the depth (poverty gap) and severity (squared … poverty gap) increase substantially. If, instead, an income tax is used, all measures of poverty increase. In both cases, full …

$2 a day poverty headcount measure to changes in mean income and inequality significantly decreases with initial … inequality and the ratio poverty line over mean income - taken as proxies for the initial density of income near the poverty line …. Variations in these proxies account for the large cross regional differences in the income elasticity of poverty during the 1980s …

This paper examined welfare and poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Bangladesh. By using a computable general … regressive pattern is observed among the urban households but it is ambiguous for the rural households. Rural poverty declined …. Except for the second simulation, the urban poverty headcount, gap and severity all worsen in other two simulations. This …