This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive … analysis of poverty and labor market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 …

This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to the study of poverty in the past twenty … five years. It has three parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US poverty line … remained unchanged in that period despite its increasingly important deficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line …

, school and local area when growing up, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood. …

of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living standards, while setting out how reforms change future costs and … indicate that while reforms have decreased generosity significantly, in most, but not all, countries the poverty alleviation …

This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remote and poorest of the independent states of the … community, needs to give urgent consideration to the development of a poverty alleviation strategy. The number of children in … the household was one of the strongest correlates of poverty. Given this, and the widespread nature of poverty, one option …

Abstract: This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in … Great Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the … unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

poverty, analysis of children's living standards, state versus federal responsibilities, welfare reform and the emphasis on …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A poverty level of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimates of Households Below Average Income are based. There was a small reduction in poverty … overall and a larger proportionate fall in child poverty. This fall was attributable in part to increased employment and in …

children and from childhood into adulthood? In particular, how far do childhood experiences of poverty, family discruption, and …