In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … of the household head, the latter subject to distinctive effects across levels of attainment and transition in and out of …

poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal … accounts of scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific … individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of … the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less the consumption of a certain group of goods: those for which …

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern … that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the … state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …