poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … to offer an efficient policy options for Asian countries. Major determinant factors of growing inequality, poverty and a …

. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits … cross-country poverty convergence using data from the same sources but an extended period, i.e. 1977-2014. We find that …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality …Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our …

poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in … suggest that there is credible evidence for poverty to have declined significantly since the 1990s but at a lesser speed than … growth in per capita GDP. More importantly, global poverty tends to respond much more strongly to shifts in sector of …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …