This paper deals with the effects of migrants remittances on poverty in Senegal. Data were extracted from the …. The results also indicate that richer households are more affected by remittances. The poverty headcount and poverty gap … are reduced in presence of remittance while the severity of poverty is worsened. …

benefit from rapid economic growth, but concerns have been expressed about a potential increase in inequality. Two household … poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit …

-head, larger family size, Occupational Caste household, and small holding are suffering from both income-poverty and consumption-poverty … falls in rural Far-western Hills of Nepal. Both income and consumption measure of poverty revealed that problem of poverty … developmental services. Education, occupation, gender of household head, and family size are found to be the most important factors …

Realizing the importance of food self-sufficiency in achieving the household food security, this paper tried to assess … chronic food insecurity as well as poverty gap was the highest in female-headed households, Mountain region, Occupational …

of the poverty line. …

in Chile by estimating a vulnerability measurement. The evidence reveals a high level of vulnerability to poverty present …Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an …

In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …

The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …