positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …

assess the impact of recent reforms on the ability of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living standards, using … most countries poverty alleviation remains strong. However, moves to link benefits to contributions have made some systems … individuals above the 60% relative poverty threshold throughout retirement. Our simulations suggest that the gradual negative …

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper … social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …

well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …