The concept of poverty has gone beyond the monetary attributes to cover several dimensions directly influencing the … deprivation of education, health and housing facilities to analyze the incidence of multidimensional poverty (MDP) at regional … levels in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Findings revealed that the magnitude of MDP varies significantly across the regions …

In this paper, I investigate the characteristics and poverty status of female- and male-headed households in South … General Household Surveys (2004 and 2006). This decade (1997–2006) represents a period for which there is an extensive poverty … literature documenting (particularly in the 2000 s) an overall decrease in the poverty headcount rate. At the same time, however …

risk of poverty and are at risk of detrimental psychological effects. Despite the salience of the issue, precarious …

before then examining the implications different methods of collecting and reporting income may have for measuring poverty … means tested benefits, in self-employment and in part-time employment. Not surprisingly then in our analysis of poverty …, using a single question produces an inflated proportion of families who could be classified as living in poverty and is less …

India. Poverty estimates are derived under three scenarios—by applying the official cut-off point of the poverty line to … adjusted to household composition. Results show that an estimated 18 million elderly in India are living below the poverty line … incidence of poverty among elderly and non-elderly households in India. This is in contrast to the notion that elderly …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty … policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …”) the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC microdata from a previous …

neighbourhood “hubs”, areas characterized by high levels of poverty. The following themes were highlighted as significant to …