differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates … account by using municipal housing price indices or by replacing the country-specific poverty line with municipal …-specific poverty lines. Applying Norwegian register data for the period 1993-2001, we find that disregarding the value of local public …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This …