One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries. We suggest a relatively easy and intuitive approach which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparisons...

Despite the recent and intense debate on how to define and measure pro-poor growth, there is one important issue which has so far not received sufficient attention: how applications of pro-poor growth measurements can appropriately take into account relative price changes, which, given the...

We build a micro-simulation model able to simulate over a 15 years' period the impact of AIDS on the distribution of income in Cocirc;te d'Ivoire. We focus on the labour supply effects of AIDS-induced mortality. We find that although the size of the economy in terms of total household income is...

This paper focuses on approaches to linking macroeconomic models to household income data for poverty and distributional analysis. Given that linkage methods can influence the resulting poverty and income distribution effects, understanding the benefits and costs of various linkages is...