This study aims to examine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), investment in construction and poverty in … to determine the best differentiated data in order to answer the question: "Why does a high level of poverty persist in … countries in the long term and maintains or reduces the poverty level by increasing the assets of the population. Empirical data …

terms of household income distribution. The empirical evidence comes from the GUS, Istat and Bank of Italy databases and has … been analysed by means of inequality and poverty indices calculated at NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 levels. In order to work out the … presenting similar levels of income concentration, Poland and Italy turned out to follow different regional inequality patterns. …

The paper investigates whether social capital can affect the standard living of the Italian households based on poverty … our results confirm the theory of social capital and poverty transition mechanism advanced by Narayan and Woolcock (2000 …. -- Social Capital ; Industrial Districts ; Poverty Incidence ; Poverty Gap ; Social Exclusion ; Cross-Section …

In this paper, we evaluate income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using … consistent results, in terms of both inequality measures and poverty rates. To the extent that the results differ, we explore the …