We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico … prices of food products. We find a modest increase in poverty using 2006-2007 prices, however, there is a daunting effect on … in 2008, such as reduced taxes and tariffs on food products and greater subsidies to the extremely poor, the poverty rate …

The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …

decomposition. Results in deprivation analysis and inequalities related reveal some new insights about the poverty situation in the … country, which contrasts with the results available from traditional poverty analysis. We observe respectively, high …

The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …

The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …

's capabilities approach presents poverty as a deprivation of elementary functioning in terms of housing, health, employment, leisure … poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as … economic capabilities (employment, leisure) are those which explain the high level of total poverty. These results are …

The commonly used poverty indices measure the overall level of poverty in a society but fail to capture the … differential intensity across different socioeconomic groups. This paper proposes a new measure, Inequality of Poverty Index … poverty across different subgroups. It can be used to determine the major socioeconomic factors …