. By studying bilateral aid flows to low- and middle-income countries between 1975 and 2005, the paper provides evidence on …

Although poverty is the most stringent problem in Moldova, the existing research had been done primarily by the WB and … the UNDP. Measurement of poverty rates, rural poverty, and socio-economic characteristics of poor people had been the … major focuses of the existing research, however very little information exists on the distribution of poverty. This research …

In years when the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) is not conducted and when funds are available, the … National Statistics Office administers the Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). The APIS has been conducted in the years …

In the effort to effectively monitor the progress or drawbacks in the fight against poverty to formulate more effective … poverty reduction programs, the issue on comparability of the official poverty estimates through space and time has been … raised. The official estimates are said to be inconsistent across regions because these are based on poverty lines that vary …

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recognize the need to understand the link between disability and poverty. In … fact this has become one of the key issues in the subject of poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific. The United Nations …

los de vulnerabilidad o exclusión social. In this paper, the evolution and future perspectives of poverty analysis are … surveyed, paying especial attention on the studies that have been carried in the Spanish case. Firstly, the concept of poverty … is clearly defined in order to revise the unidimensional analysis of poverty, which is based on the economic position of …

This paper examines the precise links between foreign direct investment (henceforth, FDI) and poverty alleviation … international borders, therefore FDI reduces poverty only under certain circumstances. “Roll out the red carpet for foreign … more FDI, exploit it more efficiently and reduce poverty. Empirical analysis using panel data of 62 countries, from 1996 to …

expenditure and permanent income are compared regarding their level and structure of inequality and poverty. Both inequality and … poverty appear to be substantially lower using the distribution of permanent income instead of either the distribution of …The usual practice in empirical distributional studies is to use either disposable income or consumption expenditure as …