This paper examines the determinants of poverty intensity in US states and Canadian provinces in 1994 and 1997 …. Although most Canadian provinces had lower poverty than US states in 1994, by 1997 Canadian distinctiveness had greatly … poverty intensity of trade exposure, unemployment, social assistance generosity and unemployment insurance benefits. …

(CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided … way, poverty. Part 2 is devoted to the presentation of a CGE model calibrated on an archetype African SAM (same as above …). One innovation in the specification of the present CGE is that it goes part way in endogenizing the poverty line and the …

A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. In … practice, there is typically not one monetary poverty line but many, reflecting the fact that poverty lines serve two distinct …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …