The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … rankings; poverty measures and anti-poverty policy; and other issues in the measurement of poverty. The third section considers … functionings. In addition to an introductory and a concluding part, the paper has four sections. The first of these, on measurement …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …Die Wahl einer passenden Äquivalenzskala ist Voraussetzung für Vergleiche der Einkommensverteilung ökonomischer …

Einkommensverteilung, zur Ungleichheit und zur Armut. Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt Äquivalenzskalen auf der Basis von Konsum …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …

relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and … using a "long run" first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We …

Recent development literature has placed priority on poverty reduction, and on possible growth enhancement from a more … than distribution neutral. In that context, this paper explores the relationship among growth, inequality and poverty, and … neutral path (‘trickle down’) for reducing poverty; 2) a redistributive growth path is always superior if a country’s per …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …