In theory, it is possible that the persistent poverty that has emerged in many transition economies, is attributable to …

. Poverty also mainly rose in Africa and it rose in South Asia and Latin America about as often as it fell. Other results … economies to find evidence that high rates of growth in average living standards are associated with higher rates of poverty … trend in distributional effect for or against the poor. Overall there was a small decrease in poverty incidence in 1987 …

consumption. The authors find that the correlation between poverty and household size vanishes in Pakistan when the size … poverty. The authors show that the incidence of severe child stunting is more elastic to household size than their Engel curve … poverty - notably the extent to which it is used to inform policies aimed at promoting child welfare - may go some way toward …

household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …

conventional socioeconomic data may not reflect well people's subjective perceptions of their poverty. The authors examine the …-point ladder. As an objective indicator of economic welfare, they use the most common poverty indicator in Russia today, in which … household incomes are deflated by household-specific poverty lines. Paradoxically, when economists analyze a policy's impact on …

consumption and the incidence of poverty across each of 260 districts. Counterfactual analyses indicate geographically diverse … impacts years after the crisis. Proportionate impacts on the poverty rate were greater in initially better off and less …

The authors show how subjective poverty lines can be derived using simple qualitative assessments of perceived … was adequate for their family's needs. The author's approach, by identifying the subjective poverty line without the usual …. The implied subjective poverty lines are robust to alternative methods of dealing with other components of consumption …