This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic … cycle. Analysing the BritishHousehold Panel Survey for 1991-96, we are able to square the microevidence — that unemployment …

Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census … neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …

poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers …. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty MonitoringSurvey, which is the only survey to date that allows a …

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

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which …

associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …