macroeconomic determinants, on poverty levels using both the U.S. official measure of poverty and an estimated time series of Sen … indices of poverty. The results reveal that the period of robust economic expansion that the U.S. economy experienced during … the 1990s did not have a significant impact on poverty using either measure. In addition, we find that the impact of …

. This paper proposes a simple new distribution sensitive welfare index with intuitive units: the average factor by which … individual incomes must be multiplied to attain a given reference level of income. This new index is subgroup decomposable with … population weights and satisfies the three main definitions of distribution sensitivity in the literature. Variants on this index …

Poverty, inequality and social welfare are defined in this book. Previous poverty studies are surveyed and a new index … of poverty is developed based on everyday meanings, and stressing the individual and relative nature of poverty. Previous … definitions of inequality and welfare are described and the relations between them and poverty are explored. New estimates of …

This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty … reduction. Using the Human Development Index as a measure of well-being, the progress made by 100 countries during 1975–98 is …

Weltwirtschaft und Armut, wie bspw. Prozesse der Marginalisierung, Wohlstandsgefälle von Nationen, Wohlstand und Armut in Europa … von Armut. Grundlegende Theoriebeiträge ergänzen und vertiefen Darstellungen zur Armutsbekämpfung in der … Entwicklungskooperation, externe und interne Erklärungen zur Entstehung und Verbreitung aber auch zur Bekämpfung von Armut. Einbezogen werden …