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 …

In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the … period from 1992 to 2014, using repeated cross-section household data. We first decompose the observed changes in poverty … contributor to poverty reduction in Mexico. In the second part of our analysis, we compile a unique panel dataset at the state …

We study cross-sectional and long-term poverty in Sweden over a period spanning two recessions, and discuss changes in … the policy context. We find large increases in absolute poverty and deprivation during the 1990’s recession but much … smaller increases in 2008-2010. While increases in non-employment contributed to increasing poverty in the 1990’s, the …

Although a wide array of stochastic dominance tests exist for poverty measurement and identification, they assume the … income distributions have independent poverty lines or a common absolute (fixed) poverty line. We propose a stochastic … dominance test for comparing income distributions up to a common relative poverty line (i.e., some fraction of the pooled median …

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …

index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of … growth according to its interactions with inequality and poverty. This model is useful for developing countries that lack GDP … poverty measures. …