better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …