households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can be difficult to enumerate in a … household's probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … this analysis, which indicates that full-time does greatly increase the probability of exiting poverty. Part …

by this route ease the financial burden of the government, but also reduced poverty. …

and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The valuation of public … scale). Even though the ranking of countries by estimates of overall inequality and poverty proves to be only slightly … affected by the choice between the conventional EU scale and the NA scale, poverty estimates by household types are shown to be …

This paper is concerned with concepts - poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization - that are typically treated … is on "well-off" countries where poverty is a minority, rather than a majority, phenomenon. At the other end of the scale … measurement of "affluence" can proceed along similar lines to the measurement of poverty. The threshold may be set, relatively, as …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are … inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional requirements. We propose national poverty lines based on the cost of a … healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios and the poverty gap. According to these poverty lines 2 …