We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European … pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the early nineteen-nineties. After this period poverty reduces slightly …

We pursue an economic approach to analysing poverty. This requires a focus on the variables that individuals can … influence, such as forming or dissolving a union or having children. We argue that this indirect approach to modelling poverty … endogenous demographic and employment transitions as the driving forces behind changes in poverty. We construct a dataset …

means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviews the … different results produced by these indices. It then examines the effectiveness of the current Index of Multiple Deprivation in …

turn deprivation is related to the Gini index and to poverty. The paper examines the relationships between the Gini index … and Lorenz orderings on the one hand and deprivation, poverty and complaints on the other hand. … between complaints and personal incomes it can be shown that a concept similar to the concept of deprivation then emerges. In …

Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society’s cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …