To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …

To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …

The objective of this article is to propose a reappraisal of the phenomenon of poverty in Soviet Union by integrating … it proposes a broader framework to evaluate wellbeing and poverty. The idea developed is that freedom of choice is an …

This paper gives an overview of the way the issue of poverty measurement is typically addressed in economics. After … having briefly defined what is meant by poverty in economics, I examine successively the unidimensional approach to poverty … income. Particular emphasis is placed on those properties of the poverty measures, that are deemed reasonable, and on their …

The aim of this contribution is to present the several steps needed in order to evaluate multidimensional poverty … a measure of multidimensional well-being and evaluates the incidence of the multidimensional poverty, based on data …

departure the household is more likely to exit poverty, but the risk of poverty entry is not significantly affected. A high …Since 1994, the European Community Household Panel provides information on changes in the French households income and … on household situation vis-à-vis the labour market month after month. Using the five available waves, this paper …

this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … nationally representative household survey of 2000 is used. The simulation involves a doubling of the import tariffs on textiles … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and …

, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions …, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of analysis, where institutions are linked to productivity and … poverty. This framework is applied to a comedor the author visited in 2001 and 2003. Through the diversity and intensity of …