indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …

Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have rarely, involved bothy developing and developed countries. The … present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demograhpic …

This article examines the effects of poverty, public assistance, and family structure on school-age children's home …

As a result of the recent crisis in Indonesia, the question of how to conceptualize poverty is on the forefront of the … continual tension in the poverty literature between the "reductionists" who confine poverty to a limited set of variables, and … the "generalists" who believe that poverty is a broader, more complex phenomena. Through the analysis of an ethnographic …