-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … applied to test for the statistical significance of all our findings. Across household types, single parents with children … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the …

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

controlling for selectivity of households with children as potential beneficiaries of educational transfers, we find evidence that …

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data …, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings indicate that there is little differentiation in productive asset endowments …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …