crucial for equitable growth and poverty reduction. Enhanced female employment and income also contribute to better priority …

captures how well targeted a programme is within a group. On the other hand, if our objective is to maximize poverty reduction …

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …