well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic …The second-order stochastic dominance criterion for inequality analysis introduced by Atkinson (1970) covers nearly all … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head …

Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings … dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this … tail in the skill distribution, there is no practical possibility of policy reducing relative poverty to 1979 levels. …

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …

This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in … 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight mechanisms for the relationships between poverty and PND in … LLMICs. The research base on the relationships between poverty and PND in LLMIC is limited, but has recently expanded. It is …

The standard approach to the study of poverty assumes the existence of an ideal variable that captures the extent of … deprivation. In this paper we postulate that poverty is involved with many dimensions. We use a latent variable framework to …

poor - instead of the entire transition matrix. Various poverty duration models accommodating unobserved population …