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 …

High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts … significantly more than previously suggested. Currently, the average Gini index (a common measure) of inequality in Eastern Europe … is about 3 percentage points higher than in the rest of Europe. This rise in inequality was initially driven by …

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it … poverty and income inequality. This is illustrated empirically using the 2004 Chilean Social Protection Survey data …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …

increase in inequality in the case of Kosovo. We further demonstrate that – although poverty reduction effects are stronger in …This paper investigates dynamic effects of remittances on households’ poverty and income distribution. Using state … time a dose-response function approach to assess poverty effects due to variations in the time-length of receiving …

poverty. The analyses are based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which provides detailed annual … information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …