longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion framework to analyze recent temporal trends in absolute … multidimensional poverty across the 27 countries in the European Union and its subregions. The analysis quantifies the extent …, composition, and factors associated with the higher risks of multidimensional poverty across four countries (Bulgaria, Romania …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …-country allocation patterns among the projects of development institutions. This paper proposes a new geographic targeting indicator and …

poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

Existing empirical studies on the relation between inequality and growth have been criticized for their focus on income … inequality and their use of cross-country data sets. Schipper and Hoogeveen use two sets of small area welfare estimates …-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model of rural per capita expenditure growth for Uganda between 1992 and 1999. They …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was …

, particularly its relationship with overall economic growth and inequality. Initial estimates using this dataset of 79 countries … inequality, the paper discusses two main ideas. First, shared prosperity is strongly correlated with overall prosperity implying … of opportunity. Growing evidence suggests that improving access for all and reducing inequality of opportunities …

Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain …

-poor (including the role played by both initial inequality and changing inequality), and whether the factors that make the …

evaluation of the impact of a series of pro-growth policies on inequality and headcount poverty. He relies on a large … the policies under consideration on growth, inequality, and poverty. The author's findings indicate that regardless of … their impact on inequality, pro-growth policies lead to lower poverty levels in the long run. However, he also finds …