-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the effect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …

poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite …

measure and the Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index. For this purpose, we use a measure of redundancy in the … identification of the poor between the two poverty measures (R0). In Chile, over the past 25 years, R0 has declined at a rate of 1 … poverty index, we find that the divergence in the identification of the poor can be explained by education improvements …

conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues to be considered are the space in which gender inequality in … overall measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is … necessarily the goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually … superior and more policy-relevant measure than the much used "regular" growth elasticity of poverty reduction. We also test the … empirical relationship of these semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and find them to explain actual …