factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 …

Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …

importance of different income sources. The decomposition is applied to household survey data from 35 countries from 6 regions in …

(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …

Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper … income instability as measures of deprivation and analyzes their relationship with perceived and objective well-being. First … perceived well-being and income instability. …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

of income, multidimensional non-monetary, and subjective deprivation for all countries in the region based on Gallup data …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple … caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors …

This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …

factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 …