mostly specific groups of the population. Employment and earnings opportunities are key determinants of poverty risks. The …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 …

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 …

-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical … impact of market forces favoring human capital accumulation on the formation of earnings. Today, a large and growing fraction …

the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased … inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …

mostly specific groups of the population. Employment and earnings opportunities are key determinants of poverty risks. The …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 …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … line, almost one-third of the ethnic minorities experienced poverty during the three years studied while the corresponding … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …

to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers …, because a sizeable group was unable to offset the loss of out-of-work welfare benefits with gains in earnings. This suggests … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …