relatively high income region of Italy. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a … single measure of welfare can be misleading. The concept of equality of living standards is a more correct definition, but it … is far more elusive. Using a national poverty line as targeting for social policies might introduce inequality between …

the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper …. Relative poverty seems to have increased in 2012, after remaining broadly unchanged in the previous two years; in 2013 it …). This pattern is more pronounced when poverty is measured against an “anchored” benchmark: the proportion of population …

fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various … aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The Western Development Plan has aimed at narrowing the income gap between … and fees. Welfare assistance has also evolved: a minimum living allowance has been introduced in urban and more recently …

This article discusses the impact of structural adjustment on poverty and inequality and overall social welfare in … Pakistan over the adjustment decade (1988–99) based on household surveys. It provides an indepth analysis of poverty during … incidence of poverty has increased and the real wages of both skilled and unskilled labour fell sharply. Overall, the likely …

usefulness of robust dominance methodology to evaluate the outcome of various policies. Originality/value – The novelty of the … paper is to be one of the first to apply empirically new dominance criteria th at are specifically designed to compare …

This paper studies poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean from a multidimensional perspective, exploiting the … analysis we find that welfare can be appropriately summarized by three dimensions: income, subjective welfare and “basic needs …

percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and … working class poverty. We find that poverty in York was significantly higher, and the contribution of welfare reform … after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about these striking results, especially with the rediscovery of poverty in …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which … comparison with OECD countries, but it is not strongly enforced. Poverty among pensioners is set to fall in the future with the …