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Trade liberalisation and the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia: a layered CGE microsimulation analysis
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2006The links between trade reform and poverty are diverse and complex. In the developing countries, the poor are generally concentrated in rural agriculture and in urban informal sector activities, they have limited assets, the most abundant of which is low-skilled labor and food is by far the most important item of their expenditure.DocumentImpacts of policies on poverty: the definition of poverty
EASYPol, 2005The aim of this training module is to briefly illustrate the main approaches to define poverty, distinguishing relative and absolute concepts.DocumentImpacts of policies on poverty: relative poverty lines
EASYPol, 2005This training module illustrates how to define relative poverty lines - those based on approaches that consider the welfare position of each individual or household in relation to the welfare position of others belonging to the same community.After emphasising the importance of the relative poverty concept in policy work, the authors discuss two methods to define relative poverty lines - incomeDocumentImpacts of policies on poverty: generalised poverty gap measures
EASYPol, 2005This training module deals with generalised poverty gap measures, particularly those poverty measures based on the definition of the poverty gap.DocumentImpacts of policies on poverty: distributional poverty gap measures
EASYPol, 2005Distributional poverty measures have the common characteristics of including a measure of inequality among the poor in the poverty index. This means that, even though in different ways, the poverty level is determined also by the way in which income is distributed among poor individuals.DocumentImpacts of policies on poverty: basic poverty measures
EASYPol, 2005This training module describes two of the most commonly used poverty measures in applied policy works - the headcount ratio (HR) and the poverty gap ratio (PG).After providing a conceptual background to HR and PG, this module describes step-by-step procedures and provides numerical examples to calculate these measures.DocumentPPA evaluation and recommendations for the Poverty Monitoring System in Tanzania
Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2006The report also considers the implications of the future integration of participatory methodologies within Tanzania’s Poverty Monitoring System, MKUKUTA.DocumentChinese poverty: assessing the impact of alternative assumptions
Institute for social and economic research and policy University of Columbia, 2006Poverty dynamics in China can play a significant role in determining trends in poverty worldwide. It is widely believed that substantial poverty reduction took place in China throughout the 1990s, though it is unclear whether this achievement has been comparable across regions and whether there have been corresponding national improvements in other aspects of human well-being.DocumentPoverty, inequality and redistribution: a methodology to define the rich
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006In extremely unequal yet relatively rich societies, inequality reduction can be an important strategy for the eradication of poverty. Whilst a great number of studies are focused on poverty, the rich seem to go under the research radar. As the study of poverty usually depends on the use of poverty lines, it seems appropriate to use the same stratification system for the rich.DocumentMeasuring wealth across seven Thai communities
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006An asset index method is a statistical method for ranking households according to their wealth. This paper outlines the methodology used to create a wealth index from household survey data.Pages