indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …

Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have rarely, involved bothy developing and developed countries. The … present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demograhpic …

This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in public spending, human capital … investment and other variables associated with changes in poverty. We find that higher minimum wages are associated with lower …