This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985-99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the …

appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. … evidence that Federalism is a strong predictor of greater income inequality in developing economies. It is also a strong … predictor of higher poverty incidence and poverty severity on average for all countries. Federalism does not predict lower …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a … lesser degree, education of the household head and dwelling characteristics. -- Income Mobility ; Poverty ; Pseudo …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. -- income mobility ; poverty ; pseudo-panels ; Latin America …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …