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Trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007Conventional approaches to measuring poverty and inequality that use money-metric data overlook social aspects of poverty. This paper uses the multidimensional, asset index, approach to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.DocumentInnocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.DocumentThe intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007This paper argues that a person’s family background is likely to have crucial impacts on his or her later-life socio-economic achievement, regardless of the level of development of the country within which they live.DocumentConceptualising economic marginalisation
Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2007This paper argues that economic marginalisation can be conceptualised as an outcome or process. When defined as an outcome, it can be a static description or a dynamic characterisation of how things are moving. The author argues that as a process or structure, two important dimensions are integration into market structures, and integration into state structures.DocumentThe Impact of Private Sector Growth on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Indonesia
SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2007This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. The impact of growth in different types of economic expenditures on poverty reduction is estimated empirically using fixed capital formation growth as the proxy for the private sector and growth in government spending as the indicator of the public sector.DocumentHorizontal inequalities in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: issues and policies
Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007This paper analyses the nature and extent of prevailing Horizontal Inequalities (HIs). The research particularly focuses on what can be done to reduce actual and perceived HIs in three West African countries, Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The authors discuss a number of specific findings in each case and then present overall findings. Some of these include:DocumentThe impact of credit on income poverty in urban Mexico: an endogeneity-corrected estimation
Department of Economics, University of Sheffield. Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series., 2007This paper examines the effect of credit on income poverty in three urban settlements in the surroundings of the Metropolitan area of Mexico City. The author finds a link between poverty impacts and lending technology.DocumentUnderstanding regional poverty and inequality trends in China: methodological issues and empirical findings
Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, 2007The March 2007 special issue of the Review of Income and Wealth focuses on regional poverty and inequality in China. This first paper provides a time profile of China's regional inequality by calculating a Theil-L index which suggests the need to tackle the urban-rural gap as a priority over regional gaps.DocumentWeighting dimensions of poverty based on people’s priorities: constructing a composite poverty index for the maldives
Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2007This paper from Erasmus University in Holland presents a new multi-dimensional poverty indicator called the Human Vulnerability Index. It weighs dimensions of poverty using population preferences which are derived from priority rankings of household surveys.DocumentEnvironment and poverty: perspectives, propositions, policies
Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2007This paper reviews what insights environmental and ecological economics can contribute to exploring the relationship between poverty and environment within the environment-development system.Various perspectives are discussed, such as ‘the poor as agents’ and ‘the poor as victims’ hypotheses, and more dynamic and interactive variations of these.Pages