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Identification of the poor in Sri Lanka: development of composite indicator and regional poverty lines
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2006The multidimensional nature of poverty creates difficulties in both identification and definition.DocumentPoverty: causes, responses and consequences in rural South Africa
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006The limitations of orthodox measures of poverty are well-documented. Measuring the incidence of poverty may be an important aspect, but does not explain the causes of poverty. This paper examines recent contributions to the analysis of poverty, particularly those emphasising the constraints on the poor posed by social relations and institutions that systematically benefit the powerful.DocumentAssessing the pro-poorness of government fiscal policy in Thailand
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006Fiscal policy represents one of the key ways in which public actions can have an impact on poverty. This can occur both through its impacts on growth and on distribution. This paper focuses on assessing the impact of fiscal policy on poverty.DocumentImpacts of policies on poverty: absolute poverty lines
EASYPol, 2005Examining concepts like food energy intake (FEI), cost of basic needs (CBN), consumption insufficiency method (CI), and budget standard method (BS), this paper argues that poverty lines may be defined using some absolute concepts.DocumentPredicting consumption poverty using non-consumption indicators: experiments using Indonesian data
SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2006The most widely used data for measuring welfare or poverty is household consumption expenditure, especially in developing countries where household income data is considered more difficult to collect and less accurate. This method is not, however, without its own problems.DocumentMonitoring poverty without consumption data: an application using the Albania panel survey
Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2005In developing countries poverty is generally measured with expenditure data. Such data are difficult and costly to obtain and it is generally recommended to collect them every 3-5 years. In between surveys, however, there is a clear need to provide policymakers with information for the monitoring of poverty trends.DocumentTrends in poverty and inequality since the political transition
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006One of the largest policy debates in South Africa currently revolves around the issue of whether or not poverty and inequality have been reduced since political transition from the apartheid regime to democracy.DocumentTargeting services towards the poor: a review of targeting mechanisms and their effectiveness
Health Systems Resource Guide, 2006This chapter analyses the alternative approaches to targeting the poor that have been used in healthcare delivery and draws together evidence from a range of countries about their effectiveness.DocumentExploring the relationship between happiness, objective and subjective well-being: evidence from rural Thailand
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006Well-being is a broad concept ranging from subjective accounts of individuals' happiness to fulfilment or satisfaction of a given list of capabilities, functionings or needs.DocumentPoverty persistence and transitions in Uganda: a combined qualitative and quantitative analysis
Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2006Uganda's impressive record in reducing the national incidence of monetary poverty over the 1990s is widely recognised. Less acknowledged, however, is that this net aggregate reduction was accompanied by substantial mobility into as well as out of poverty.Pages