fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to … measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a multivariate statistical approach to untangle the fuel poor household … profile. Then, to explore the factors driving the risk of falling into fuel poverty situations we use a logistic regression …

central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …

In the EU there is growing concern about poverty among children, and among families with children. In most OECD … countries, income poverty among children now exceeds that among the elderly, who traditionally were the demographic group most … at risk of poverty (Jäntti and Danziger, 2000). However, the policy response of most industrialized countries in the past …

This study attempts to introduce a new method to measure relative income poverty. The aim is to find a solution which … will combine information both on the depth of poverty and the quantity of the poor, i.e. the number of people living in … poverty. Furthermore, a yardstick is sought which would be relatively simple and easy to understand, as these properties would …