could be very significant in explaining regional variations in income and poverty. The major question this paper tries to …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …

. Doch schrumpft die Mittelschicht aufgrund einer Polarisierung der Einkommensverteilung wirklich? Während empirische Studien …. A selection of polarization indices are presented for different poverty and affluence thresholds based on net household …) show an increase in income polarization since the late nineties independent of the choice of poverty and affluence …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality …

services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset …