the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz …

This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under … resource rent and contrived (i.e., government monopoly) rent the property of being a large revenue stream that is detached from … the economic activity that generates it, and elicits political contests for its capture. Rent-driven models suggest such …

main household income diversification and risk coping strategies. IV estimates show, somewhat surprisingly, that mother …?s migration has a positive effect on early cognitive development. We attribute these findings to changes in income and to the … intra-household empowerment gains resulting from mother?s migration, which offset potential negative ECD effects from …

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it …

income during the 1970s and 1980s. …