to document and discuss this issue using data from West and Central Africa and results from a series of poverty … has translated into substantial poverty reduction according to objective measures based on household survey data. At the … same time, many people do not feel that the poverty situation has been improving in their country or community, and this is …

Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of inequality and … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of …

source on inequality in total income. This note extends the methodology to take into account income variability. …

services in Africa. Using Demographic and Health Surveys from 22 countries that have conducted at least two such surveys …

?; (c) What are the determinants of migration?; (d) What is the impact of remittances on poverty, inequality, and … can be expected in the future?; (b) To what extent does migration increase per capita income and thereby reduce poverty …

and in the south, and in some cases (for example, for poverty) we estimate how much additional progress is likely to be …

Oaxaca? How much progress was achieved in the 1990s toward reducing poverty in these states? Why are households in these … states so poor? Specifically, does their poverty result from a lack of assets or from low returns to existing assets? Finally …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …