This paper explores poverty trends in Mexico during the 1990's using three different definitions of poverty. The paper … then uses poverty convergence analysis to explore the pre-crisis (1992-1994), the crisis (1994-1996), and the recovery … periods (1996-1998). Finally, the paper incorporates a regional analysis in order to examine these poverty effects in greater …

, Mexico, the US, and to a lesser extent Canada and attempt to both describe poverty as it exists in the three countries and … poverty and between race/ethnicity and poverty in the US and Mexico. The final section briefly raises policy issues that …This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America. In it we look at the three countries of North America …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and …

corrections confirm the inequality-neutral impact of pensions in Mexico, and equalizing impacts of transfers, direct taxes …

operations to Mexico or a child living without a father in a Mexican town because many working-age men have left to seek jobs in … the United States or Canada. The sheer scale of migration from Mexico to the United States and, to a lesser extent, to … estimated by the Central Bank of Mexico), roughly 1.5 percent of the country's GDP. Added together, the sums that migrants send …

economies recovered from economic crises in the early and mid-1990s and levels of child poverty started to fall, families at the … in Mexico. While the majority of children growing up in the United States and Canada enjoy a level of economic security …

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

policies on their poverty levels. Specifically, the paper conducts multi-level regression analyses across 18 OECD countries … decrease in poverty levels among the low skilled. The negative effect of passive labor market policies (PLMP) on poverty is … only significant for the older male group. Family policies are related to a reduction in poverty for both low-skilled young …