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 …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

economic exclusion of immigrants, conceptualized not as labor market outcomes but as relative poverty. This study examines the … relationship between welfare generosity and immigrant poverty across rich western democracies and compares this relationship with … that of native poverty. One publicly held belief is that immigrants disproportionately benefit from welfare generosity …

Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … market activity affect child poverty generally in the expected way. Taking advantage of the longitudinal data at the country …

This study investigates the macro (structural and institutional) factors influencing working poverty by comparing among … from eligible two-parent households. The supply-side prescription of a mixed capitalist economy produced marginal poverty … alleviation. As a result, working poverty has become a pronounced social problem in many developed capitalist countries in recent …

This paper aims to better understand the income factors that influenced child poverty rates across a group of four … diverse middle-income countries in 2010. We use data from LIS to analyze child poverty using harmonized measures of income in …, protected children from higher rates of child poverty? For this question, we disaggregated incomes to identify tax and transfer …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …