annuitized value of comprehensive wealth and the ratio of comprehensive wealth to the actuarial present value of future poverty … poverty-line wealth of 3.56. About 12 percent of households, however, do not have sufficient wealth to finance consumption … equal to the poverty line over their expected lifetimes, even after including the value of Social Security and welfare …

The paper provides a summary of evidence on the development of poverty in the Czech Republic since 1989. First, the new … sources of poverty after 1989 and the new measures introduced to prevent or combat it are described. Second, the relative ease …, a variety of measurements that reveal different faces of poverty, comparing so-called objective and subjective …

A close formal relationship between poverty measurement and the measurement of downside risk was established by … Breitmeyer et al. (1999). Moreover, they show that well-known requirements for poverty measures can motivate reasonable … properties of downside risk measures, too. We build on their work by transforming a number of poverty measures into (new …

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration's impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

Poverty has remained widespread in Mozambique, mostly on account of the prevalent war situation. This paper provides a …