The handbook on poverty and inequality provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty. It … provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book is intended for researchers and policy … analysts involved in poverty research and policy making. The handbook began as a series of notes to support training courses on …

poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …

Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that Egyptian fiscal policy reduces income inequality, and that among individual … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …

Around the world, countries use a wide variety of poverty measurement methodologies. A common method used to measure … poverty is based on levels of consumption - a person is considered poor if his or her consumption level falls below some … measuring poverty in the Maldives using a relative poverty line and presents findings of applying the poverty concepts in the …

of chronic poverty, entrenched income inequality, and most troubling one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the … in order to reduce poverty. In this report concludes that it is possible for Lesotho to reduce poverty and to continue …

Security Challenge -- Human Security -- The UNDP and Human Security -- Human Security: Looking Forward -- Poverty and … Inequality: A Cause for Concern -- Neoliberal Development -- Global Governance: In Whose Interest? -- The Structure of the Book … -- 2. Mapping Inequality -- Interstate Polarisation -- Intrastate Polarisation -- Mapping the World's Producers -- Mapping …

"This book explores the issue of whether microfinance institutions empower women has become a heated debate not only in …