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 …

Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania … few links; third, the efficiency with which income growth reduces poverty in Tanzania appears very sensitive to the …Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution …

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

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

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 …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …