Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper … social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …

The accession of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union (EU) in 2007 offers significant theoretical and empirical … the considerable EU discretion in the manner of its implementation. In that sense Bulgaria and Romania, as ‘outliers’ of … sought to influence domestic reform in the two countries through a mix of threats and rewards. What emerges from Bulgaria …

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 …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …