measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015 …. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have … poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the …

useful advice in the design and management of development programs, including those related to poverty. Meanwhile the …Since before Adam Smith, economists have been concerned with development. However, they have seldom understood it or … to force development everywhere into a rigid pattern. Since 1874, the marginalists and their Neoliberal descendents have …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

Much of the discussion of economic development in low and middle income countries and of poverty reduction has either …

true income per capita and $1-a-day poverty rates for the developing world and its regions. We obtain poverty estimates … survey-based poverty literature more generally. …

development. Chapters 5 and 6 contribute to the debate on the effect of political and fiscal institutions on budgeting … Florian Dorn: (I) Globalization, government ideology, and top income shares: Evidence from OECD countries; (II) Political …