The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in … from individual, income and poverty dynamics. We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates among young … women in the US. We use this model to analyse differences in poverty experiences, particularly between black and white women. …

Asia crisis. The results remain unchanged, suggesting that there is a causal relationship between preferential and MFN …

Background: Evidence suggests a much higher prevalence of postpartum depression in South Asia than in ‘western … depression in South Asia. Methods: Five databases were searched to identify relevant studies. Studies meeting the selection and … association. The importance of relationships with the extended family, as well as the husband, in South Asia is highlighted …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …

well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …