This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

on 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 …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We … use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13 ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …

study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty … growth has been the main driver of poverty reduction, further progress could have occurred under relatively favourable income …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile …. This paper employs recently collected data on household consumption in Mozambique to examine the evolution of consumption …

headcount ratio, using income and expenditure survey microdata. With the poverty line as defined here, approximately half the …The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …