This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …

profound social transformative effects. In particular, they can help address enduring economic problems such as poverty and …

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development clearly recognises that poverty is more than just the lack … capture poverty in other dimensions. Unfortunately, the available international indicators of multidimensional poverty suffer … indicator of multidimensional poverty, called the Global Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (G-CSPI), which addresses most of …

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … techniques and apply the framework of stochastic dominance to test the robustness of the results. The results reveal a … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …