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.[...] …

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This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remoteand poorest of the independent states of the … Former Soviet Union. Datais used from the first nationally representative household surveyconducted in Tajikistan since …

, quantitative,phase of the project, based on the UK Time Use Survey (TUS) 2000. The TUS is anationally representative household …

Following the implementation of the government’s fuel poverty strategy in 2001, Warm Front is expected to make a …’s target of eliminating fuel poverty among vulnerable households by 2010, based largely on the recommendations in a recent … and fuel poverty.[...] …

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 …

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the … investigated with behavioural models thatstrive to capture household strategies to cope with nutritional inadequacy andscarcity of …

poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerablehouseholds in the UK using Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Survey … andfind that, of three different types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocksand economy-wide aggregate shocks … revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …