Not all regions in Germany are affected by income poverty to the same extent and when attempting to identify areas … which are particularly prone to poverty, it is important to take regional price differentials into account. Applying the … yardstick of this purchasing power poverty reveals the larger cities to be particularly deprived areas. By contrast, the east …

'Poverty dynamics and the labour market'. In addition to basic information about the methodological design the report presents …

second tier of the pension system has obvious costs in terms of poverty among old-age pensioners. Their incomes will fall …

Uganda has made progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving extreme income poverty by 2015, but … there have been intermittent setbacks to the advances made. The incidence of poverty increased in the period 1999 …/00-2002/03, before falling significantly in the period 2002/03-2005/06. The findings of this Country Study suggest that poverty reduction …

asset poverty rates were declining. The impression was supported by the official, income-based poverty measure, which … exhibited a sharp decline. According to Senior Scholar Edward N. Wolff and Research Scholar Asena Caner, poverty measures should … include wealth as well as income. Their study of asset poverty in the United States between 1984 and 1999 focuses on the lower …

Poverty reduction initiatives should be comprehensive, relational and global in their outlook even though poverty … Report provides a brief overview of contemporary work on conceptualisations of poverty. It outlines characteristics of multi …-dimensional and relational approaches to poverty and it examines the increased concern with the relation of inequality to poverty. The …