The present work estimates poverty and inequality indices in various groups that are known to have high contributions … to poverty and inequality, such as farmers, pensioners and families with 3 or more children. Using the bootstrap … technique, we estimate confidence intervals for these indices and examine if the decrease of poverty and inequality during the …

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two …-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated … seeks to understand the relationship between poverty, socioeconomic status and urban or rural residence depends on survey …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

The aim of this paper is to study the mechanisms behind poverty persistence in Spain. We examine the importance of past … poverty experiences for explaining current poverty as opposed to observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. Our results … are based on the model proposed by Cappellari and Jenkins (J Appl Econometr 19:593–610, 2004a) that estimates poverty …

greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the … poverty in the different parts of the country. One size does not fit all. Deliberate effort of the government in …

Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its … announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been …