This paper explores for the first time the relationship between immigration and poverty in Spain. Using the EU … Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2006, we find that both moderate and severe poverty are more acute among migrants than … among nationals and social transfers play no substantial role in reducing poverty in the former case. In addition, using an …

This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the … variations in the poverty indicators and the main components that answer for this variation - decomposition model;another that … simulates the effects of the variation of the income and the concentration indicators on the poverty level - model of elasticity …

This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, most studies show that the old are represented proportionally or under …

In this paper we present a comparative analysis of poverty and income inequality prevalent in the seven towns of Lahore …

For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …