welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …

We analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was … especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below 10% and are … Nam with child underweight rates of 27% and therefore higher than headcount rates of the $1.25 poverty line. Also …

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

lift poor minority households out of poverty further and reduce the development gap. …

Islamic economics [IE] emerged with a new vision and aspiration of a better path to development. Unfortunately, IE has … evolved mostly as an intellectual/academic shell, in which poverty eradication, except in rhetoric, is a peripheral concern … causing a shift toward substantively dealing with the challenge of poverty. However, beyond the issue of type of enterprises …

; welfare ; multi-dimensional poverty measurement ; first order dominance ; Mozambique ; Vietnam … rankings of populations. These approaches are applied to household survey data from Vietnam and Mozambique. -- ordinal …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …

Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

potentially change the vulnerability to poverty using a panel data set in Indonesia. We focus on the effect of drought and flood …, two of the commonly observed disasters there. Our simulation results indicate that vulnerability to poverty may increase …

North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … of other second-best strategies can be employed. Using imputation methods can help to measure monetary poverty …. Constructing non-monetary poverty and asset indexes from less robust surveys, using non-traditional surveys such as phone surveys …