Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …

measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

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This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remoteand poorest of the independent states of the … Former Soviet Union. Datais used from the first nationally representative household surveyconducted in Tajikistan since …

, quantitative,phase of the project, based on the UK Time Use Survey (TUS) 2000. The TUS is anationally representative household …

Following the implementation of the government’s fuel poverty strategy in 2001, Warm Front is expected to make a …’s target of eliminating fuel poverty among vulnerable households by 2010, based largely on the recommendations in a recent … and fuel poverty.[...] …

poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers …. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty MonitoringSurvey, which is the only survey to date that allows a …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century …. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set forthe early 1900s. These data are more representative … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …