poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of … per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

countries with respect to poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, the distribution of income between …

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 …

/2010) geregelt. Präsentiert wird die Zusammensetzung und zahlenmäßige Entwicklung der Gruppe von Ausgrenzungsgefährdeten in … Österreich. Dazu werden das Ausmaß von Ausgrenzungsgefährdung im Jahr 2010 und die Entwicklung der europäischen Indikatoren in … Publikation im Vergleich zur Berichterstattung zu EU-SILC in den Vorjahren einige Modifizierungen. Einkommen, Armut und …

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in … welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st century the question of poverty is still highly relevant. It remains today … poverty risks have tended to increase from the early 1980s to the present day. We also show that the cross-national variation …

's program to reduce child poverty. While best practices may be identified, each nation must create its own set of mutually … poverty. …

While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger … self-reliance (earned incomes), family support, and government support to avoid poverty. This paper is designed to examine … these differences in greater detail. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty, as they relate to …