This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the … among female household heads was lower than that of their male-headed counterparts, but in some cities the poverty gap was … Republic of Benin using data collected during the 1999 living standards measurement survey in the country's rural and urban …

Income inequality and poverty are closely related. This study decomposed income inequality in Nigeria using the Gini …. Factors suchs as urbanization, residence in the southwest zone, household size, the house head's formal education, number of … contributed to the increased income inequality. Between 1998 and 2004, income redistribution and income growth increased poverty …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …

In this paper we provide a set of rules that can be used to check poverty or inequality dominance using discrete data … household surveys, this continuity does not exist. However, such a discontinuity can be exploited to test for stochastic … rankings. The methodology of this paper is illustrated using Burkina Faso's household surveys for the years of 1994 and 1998. …

incidence) nor actually relate poverty indices to fiscal impact. This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive … and poverty effects of the tax and transfer (education and health) systems in Cameroon. Broadly speaking, the tax system … reflect fiscal policies in that they are more progressive and poverty-reducing when we use relative poverty lines in rural …

This paper aims to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries using an asset index constructed … rural areas, are thus required. Overall poverty has declined in five of the seven countries. The trends in urban and rural … poverty for the most part mirror these trends in overall poverty. Five of the seven countries experienced an improvement in …

. We use the 2001 Haiti Living Conditions Survey for distributive analysis and poverty assessment to try to make manifest … the potential links between household well-being and individual socio-economic characteristics. One particular finding is … that access to land does not help the poor escape poverty. Complementary to the inequality and poverty profiles constructed …

indirect taxes over the main household consumption products: reduction of indirect taxes over the main inputs used in … micro-simulation model used for poverty and income distribution analysis. The first two simulations showed that the policies …