Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues … misleading and led to the so-called 'Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox', i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but … almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level …, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate … whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find only weak evidence that Germans are …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine neue Berechnungsweise des Anteils permanenter Armut an der gesamten vorhandenen … Armut vorgestellt. Es wird gezeigt, dass der weithin genutzte Shorrocks-Index zur Zerlegung von permanenter und … transitorischer Ungleichheit auch zur Beschreibung von Armut genutzt werden kann. Damit können Unzulänglichkeiten in der von Rodgers …

Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty …