poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …

The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …