Cities and towns are increasingly becoming the primary locus of poverty in many countries. Rural-urban migration and … rapid growth comes an increasing concentration of poverty in urban areas. In parallel, more countries assign local … governments increased responsibility in fighting poverty. With decentralization, the responsibility of local social policy goes …

Government and the private sector have complementary roles in promoting development and in fighting poverty. …

for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality.\ They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and … suggest that migrants do better than non-migrants for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two group is found …