Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

epidemiology tools with the literature on poverty traps. A theoretical model of rational protective behaviour in response to … epidemiology and poverty are solved.ResultsTwo important conclusions emerge from the model. First, agents increase their protective …". Second, a 'malaria trap' defined as the result of malaria reinforcing poverty while poverty reduces the ability to deal with …

In this paper, we study the links between time use, informal labor market, and poverty measures in two countries that … strongly differ on their level of development, by means of a multidimensional poverty index, and a bivariate probit model to …

assist in the development of human and social capital and economic opportunities, the alleviation of poverty or the …