Preventing and alleviating child poverty constitute main concerns for the strategies and policies in the field of … social protection and social inclusion in the European Union, and significantly reduce child poverty, as one of the core … objectives of these strategies. Setting up policies of child poverty alleviation implies knowing the dimensions and …

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become … a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely … low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds that are adjusted only for inflation rather than for changes …

persistent socioeconomic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. Women - by far the largest group of program beneficiaries … to empower and undermine prevailing structures that produce and reproduce poverty and gender disparities. Because the … remedies some of the most entrenched and resilient causes of poverty and gender inequality. The paper examines survey evidence …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …