in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

Gini coefficient and to increase average income, growth, and income of the poor. However, some non-linearites are detected …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z … valued welfare measure. It proposes a lexicographic L*-ordering, where the first rank criterion corresponds to an inequality …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed …

, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of the educational expansion on the growth of household incomes …, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …

households) in the sample villages is below poverty line (at Rs. 400 per capita per month). On the other hand, no more than 39 ….5 percent of the people (and 37.36 percent households) is likely to stand under the poverty line (at Rs. 425 per capita per ….31. The prime reasons of poverty are excessive dependence on primary sector, disguised unemployment, poor development of …

of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …

, namely the literature on the use of equivalence scales and the one on poverty measurement. We also critically examine some …

(COMPUTABLE)GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH, THAT IS A RENEW ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY , EMPLOYMENT AND INEQUALITY THAT EARLIER STRATEGIES …PERHAPS, POVERTY AND PLENTY IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHALLENGE. THIS STUDY THEREFORE PROPOSE AN APPLIED … FOCUSING ON RAPID GROWTH WERE UNABLE TO RESOLVE. USING NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY, WE PERFORM THE SPECIFICATION, ESTIMATION AND …