? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret-police chief Montesinos systematically …

resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty … female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with …

power to that when totally unemployed, we establish the appropriate cut-off point for the poverty trap and upper rate …

in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such … consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a … can help explain the persistence of poverty. …

important since democracy is, on the whole, for specified reasons likely to enhance poverty reduction. …

This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …