Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in … distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes … the characteristics of poverty among the working population based on gender and other household attributes. It measures …

examine the impact of natural disasters on Indonesian household welfare (consumption and poverty) using the Indonesian Family … econometric models confirm that earthquakes are the most destructive disaster to affect household welfare, whereas droughts … devastating impacts of disasters and in lessening households’ vulnerability to poverty. The policy recommendations resulting from …

poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …

immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …

remained high. These are the findings of the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The risk-of-poverty … rate was 16.8 percent in 2015, in comparison to around 11 percent in the mid-1990s. The risk-of-poverty rate among the … migration background - those who were born in a foreign country and then migrated to Germany. The increase in the risk-of-poverty …

different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The analysis forecasts that the number of people living in poverty …

poor. The poverty measures debate across the developing world has generated more heat than light as there is no consensus … on constructing the poverty line. Characterization of poverty and heterogeneity of the poor needs more profound … understanding and investigation. This paper attempts to provide an alternative framework to track Chronic and Transient poverty …

presented. We distinguish between measures based on a general class of pro-poor indices and a dominance-based techniques. In the …