It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by … research on family dynamics.New Zealand adult and child poverty transitions are compared. Child poverty transitions in New … similar current income measure of poverty is available. The frequency of poverty “trigger events” in New Zealand and their …

Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … individual and national well- being. Developed country measures of child poverty are dominated by income-poverty, although health … absolute poverty imply concern with fundamentals such as malnutrition, illiteracy and premature death and the things which …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …

, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …

The purpose of this paper will be to study the evolution of inequality and poverty in Uruguay between 1989 and 1997. We … found that from 1991 there was an increase wage inequality in Uruguay and poverty changed little, decreased until 1993 and … little to poverty. …