This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are … heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it … proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It …

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of … poverty decomposition. …

, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …-poor. Finally, the overall trends in the quality of growth and its contribution and that of redistribution to poverty adjustments … poverty reductions, while growth with government-directed redistribution can. …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz … in global miserliness over the last 30 years. -- Miser index ; poverty ; affluence ; inequality ; development …

point is afforded by the status of a "focus axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in …

point is afforded by the status of a "focus-axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in …

each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall … in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in …

In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … Santiago should try to measure segregation based on income and, especially, poverty. The main goal of this paper is to … still exist. It's for this reason that poverty and education should have a higher priority than segregation in the public …