This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to … poverty into contribution of growth and a contribution due to the redistribution, according to the decomposition approaches … (2001), and the Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate, suggested by Kakwani and Son (2002), are applied to assess the degree of pro …

When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to identify the poor, an equivalence … scale to compare individuals from households of different compositions and sizes, and a poverty index to aggregate … individual deprivation into an index of total poverty. A different choice of poverty line, poverty index or equivalent scale can …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. …

indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …

sensitive to the selection of particular concepts of resources, equivalence scales and poverty lines. This article aims to … examine the robustness of the results of poverty analysis to the use of alternative concepts of resources (consumption …) equivalence scales (subjective, experts' and food-scales) and poverty lines (fractions of the mean of the respective distribution …

? What is the relation between informality and poverty? Theoretically, both are possible, and in this sense, the informal … findings to poverty. We investigate data to see whether observable heterogeneities in terms of income exist not only between …

construct a detailed poverty map of the West Bank and Gaza, by estimating the incidence of poverty in 132 distinct localities … contained in the Palestinian Census from 1997. Our results suggest that the incidence of poverty indeed differs greatly across … localities. This indicates that it may be efficient to base targeting of the poor on the geography of poverty in the West Bank …