The high levels of poverty and inequity that affect a large portion of Latin American population is among the main … poverty line, while 13,4% (71 million) is below the extreme poverty line. Even though this issue has been present in the … poverty, specially considering the weakening of formal labour as the main source of social integration. In this context, the …

income inequality by 2030. However, the potential reduction can be fully accounted for by the projected convergence in …

Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition …-based measure. However, the role of social inequality in influencing individual’s consumption and inducing greater consumption of … the so called status good has been relatively undermined. This paper attempts to show that in presence of inequality a …

In presence of inequality a status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition … based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the …

concepts and indices to explore the growth, poverty and inequality nexus in Indonesia over the period 2002-2012. We find a … for other factors to account for around two-fifths of total household expenditure inequality in Indonesia. If poverty … inequality and accelerate the pace of economic growth and poverty reduction. …

known about the ultimate impact of informal loans on poverty and inequality. If informal credit is an important means to …, and subsequently assess its impact on poverty and inequality. By using fixed-effect regressions with instrumental … the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index. The effects on expenditure inequality were small. …

have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines … with poverty, inequality and per capita GDP. Countries with more improvement in trade facilitation are more likely to have … lower poverty and inequality, and higher per capita GDP than other countries with less improvement in trade facilitation. …