paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …

welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …

The Czech Republic has experienced a remarkable decline in the unemployment rate but not in relative poverty. I address … this and other facts by analysing the evolution of absolute and relative poverty over the 2004-2021 period. I first … document a remarkable decline in absolute poverty in poorer Czech regions, indicating that the growth experience of the Czech …

relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality and … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously …

Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high … and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income … and Program Participation and Current Population Survey, the sources of recent extreme poverty estimates, to …

between-district inequalities to national inequality and examines the relationship between household poverty and inequality … a significant effect on household poverty, but with varying signs. We surmise that the variation in signs is as a result … of the state of economic activity and factors that affect both poverty and inequality …

Empirical work in Bangladesh shows that growth reduces poverty in both urban and rural areas - and is associated with … poverty more. Most empirical work on how growth affects poverty and inequality has been based on international panel data sets … Bangladesh, where regional panel estimates indicate that growth reduces poverty in both urban and rural areas. Growth is …