In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those … multidimensional poverty in Central America are higher among females; inequality, however, is somewhat higher among males. …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct … to poverty reduction and are almost neutral in their distributive impact. The results contribute to the understanding of …

severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …

The War on Poverty is 50 years old. Over that time, federal and state governments have spent more than $19 trillion … fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished?Although far from conclusive, the evidence suggests that we have … successfully reduced many of the deprivations of material poverty, especially in the early years of the War on Poverty. However …

This article posits the issue of American poverty and governments' inability to significantly alter this adverse social … condition. While data suggests there has been a substantial and measurable improvement in poverty rates over the past four … decades, the fact remains, poverty is an inherent and permanent factor of the American social, economic and political …

insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because …