poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

, personal contact, technology and political engagement, each generated from a number of indicators. A breakdown of the index … the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … pages. It remains unfinished yet it is a masterly guide to the nuances of poverty measurement and an invaluable source for …A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the … composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …

We use the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo to examine economic … of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … of these attributes on deprivation using Oaxaca-type decomposition methods. Empirical results for both decomposition …

In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers … world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … capita on these six dimensions of development and their combined performance index. The residuals from these regressions are …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a …