. We argue that analysis of subjective wellbeing can be used to enrich and validate the process of poverty analysis in the …

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are … has the tradition and the practice to use relative poverty as “official” poverty estimates (Common Laeken indicators); the … USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays …

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …

Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and … the EU member states use one or several ‘official’ poverty indicators on which success of poverty reduction policy is … regularly monitored. Whereas the US poverty indicator is based on an absolute concept of poverty, the EU Laeken indicator is …

of poverty on child labour and child soldier. An attempt is made in this article to highlight and critically examine the … children issues and lessons emerging from Africa and India. …

In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity …, religion and even regional origins all influence income outcomes. Therefore while examining individual poverty, the influence … suffer from chronic impoverishment, especially in rural India. What economic endowments are owned by whom and by how much …

people especially those living in developing countries such as India. Especially the people living in rural areas have been … inadequate. In this respect the President of India advocated that provision of urban amenities in rural areas is an essential …

India is a witness of regional disparities in many sphere of socio- economic development. On one side, world’s majority … of new billionaires are in India and on the another side, India has majority of poor people. Like that, in development … said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a …