typically captured by adjusting a poverty measure to be sensitive to inequality among the poor. This approach, however, has …A number of multidimensional poverty measures that respect the ordinal nature of dimensions have recently been proposed … within the counting approach framework. Besides ensuring a reduction in poverty, however, it is important to monitor …

reduce income inequality. Fiscal policy and economic growth can effectively reduce poverty by lowering income inequality, so … inequality, as well as considering how these variables influence poverty by province. This study employed secondary data … significant in directly reducing poverty in regions outside Java but do not affect it through income inequality. Taxes increase …

poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …