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We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework …
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There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes … poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project … targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty …
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by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …
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Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …
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investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of … poverty decomposition. …
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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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income distributions and national accounts GDP, we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality indices for … African countries for the period 1990-2011. Our findings are as follows. First, African poverty is falling rapidly. Second …, the African countries for which good inequality data exist are set to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) poverty …
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of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and …
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …
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