This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz …

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes …-SSA, so that within both regions there are considerable disparities in the responsiveness of poverty to income growth … both regions and all three measures of poverty - headcount, gap, and squared gap - the paper finds the impact of GDP growth …

redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … instruments to redistribute income to the poor. Yet frequently they have not managed to do so. The redistributive impacts from … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

probability of a household or individual falling into poverty in the future. Based on this definition and using household survey … to gage permanent income. And third, prediction precision depends on the chosen poverty line. More accurate measurement …There are alternative definitions of vulnerability to poverty. Most researchers prefer to define vulnerability as the …

This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long … to the firms. The functions of market will be suppressed. Rent-seeking will be widespread. As a result, economic … performance will be poor and the income distribution issue will worsen. Foreign trade will also be retarded. Only if governments …

macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain … sectors may cause greater poverty reduction. The model involves a non-traded and a traded sector on the formal side of the … traded sector is more pro-poor compared to a similar rise in the non-traded sector as the former draws workers out of poverty …

market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … other hand, minimum wage increases can have a direct positive impact on family income and may therefore help to reduce … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposed to the forces of …

This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro … reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure. This paper proposes a pro …-poor growth measure that satisfies the monotonicity criterion. This measure is called the ‘poverty equivalent growth rate’, which …

algorithm is evaluated first by using household survey records to compare true income observations with their synthetic …We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … individual income observations to be reconstructed from any feasible grouping pattern. In contrast to earlier methods, our …