(CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided … way, poverty. Part 2 is devoted to the presentation of a CGE model calibrated on an archetype African SAM (same as above …). One innovation in the specification of the present CGE is that it goes part way in endogenizing the poverty line and the …

A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. In … practice, there is typically not one monetary poverty line but many, reflecting the fact that poverty lines serve two distinct …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …

redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We … agriculture-based state of poverty to a human capital-based developed economy. …

-level allocation of poverty alleviation programs drawing upon National Sample Survey data and the Election Commission's election data … less provision of the poverty alleviation programs. Second, the disadvantaged groups were not necessarily likely to be the … primary beneficiaries of the poverty alleviation programs. Third, our results based on the natural experiment approach suggest …

draws on three rounds of household surveys, VHLSS 2002, 2004 and 2006. It is first observed that the pace of poverty … majority and minority increased over the periods. Thirdly, the study shows that the pure effect of economic growth on poverty … assets, such as land, for ethnic minority groups would lead to more equal distribution of consumption and poverty reduction …

valuable to policymakers and others concerned with poverty reduction in Bangladesh and elsewhere." from text …

, health expenditure and indicators of development and poverty reduction in Africa and Asia, with special attention to the role …