years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …

limited to standardeconomic measures of poverty based on incomes or expenditures,but also include trends in selected … thepopulation is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen,joblessness has increased, school enrolment has dropped andgeneral …

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …

Poverty.[...] …

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

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 …

to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …

local area when growingup, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood.[...] …

’s Legal Aid systemand the concurrent pursuit of progressive anti-poverty, social inclusion,community regeneration, and human … aneffective engine of social inclusion and fighting poverty throughinsuring and expanding rights to critical benefits and services …