Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012
show that Latvia experienced a sharp rise in poverty, widening of the poverty gap, and a rise in income inequality due to … restaurants, construction, and manufacturing) likely led the poverty head count to increase from 14.4 percent in 2008 to 20 ….2 percent in 2009. The poverty gap, which measures the national poverty deficit, was simulated to increase from 5.9 percent in …