There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil … assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use …: Wave VIII (2010), Wave XIX (2013) and Wave X (2016). I cross-nationally compare the relative child poverty at 40%, 50%, and …

from the US, the paper brings fresh evidence to longstanding debates over how inequality influences income redistribution …, whether a welfare retrenchment has occurred, and whether growing inequality within the middle class has been associated with a …

study explores the effects of financial transfers on poverty rates using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to … understand the role of public and private transfers on poverty reduction in the United States and France. This study analyzes … poverty outcomes based on (i) market income (income prior to taxes and transfers), (ii) market income plus public transfers …

This review explains how and why the U.S. has systemically high poverty. Descriptive evidence shows U.S. poverty is: (a … poverty: (i) behavioral explanations "fixing the poor"; (ii) emotive compassion "dramatizing the poor"; and (iii) cultural … of the poor towards political explanations of poverty. …