years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …

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

Using parametric formulae under lognormality for a broad family of povertymeasures, we show that when inequality … 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... …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax ….), and all other changes in the underlyingpopulation (market income inequality, demographic composition, employment level …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …

Wirtschaftsethik primär behandelten Probleme wie Umweltverschmutzung, Korruption, Arbeitslosigkeit oder Armut nicht lösbar sind, ohne …