This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth …' wages and, thus, poverty alleviation. Then it presents cross-country empirical evidence that analyzes first, the … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …

model that shows how exogenous variations in market power affect poverty. Increased market power leads to economy … incomes of households, particularly among the poor. Declines in poverty in this context are only possible in the case wherein … poverty eradication. This result suggest the possibility of taxing extranormal rents extracted by firms with market power and …

cost approach. The pros and cons of each method are discussed in the context of poverty and inequality analysis and it is …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …