"Series of well-written articles examines regional poverty and income distribution. Includes separate articles on …

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference … minimum wage. The Formby-Bishop-Kim paper compares the poverty reducing effects of the minimum wage to two alternative poverty …-Kalb-Scutella compare alternative approaches to measuring poverty and inequality in a discrete hours model. …

High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central … economic affairs use these new approaches to examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the ability of … techniques to analyze the regional dynamics of poverty and inequality in Peru and Brazil, considering whether there are spatial …