Inequality in land ownership remains a major issue in many developing countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, and South …

, circular and retroactive relationships with globalization, growth and poverty. The objective of this paper is to establish a … poverty. In this aim, the first section of paper presents critical evaluation of equity vs. equality debate, specifically …

countries (Brazil, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uruguay and Vietnam). The sources of income and consumption structure reflect … reform on poverty and inequality is significant and diverse from one country to the other. …

We analyse the influence of the recent wave of migration on the incidence of poverty among stayers in Ecuador. We draw … of migration on poverty among migrant households. This effect is substantially smaller than the one that we find focusing … empirical evidence on the relationship between remittances and poverty needs not to be informative about the size of the direct …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. There is no evidence of adaptation within a … poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. Third, poverty scars: those who have been …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

poverty and inequality in rural areas. While the poverty impacts of those programs are well documented in the literature less …

Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are … confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I … propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the …

on poverty to explore the poverty-reducing role of social protection during financial crises. Using advanced panel data … techniques to deal with endogeneity issues, we find that financial crises are associated with slower reductions in the poverty … headcount and the poverty gap. Crises lead to 526,400-555,000 additional poor people and to an increase of 4.7-10.6 percentage …