-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

. The implications of directly incorporating group disparities into the measurement of poverty for poverty comparisons and … manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly … desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted …

the last 25 years. It identifies issues relating to programs, institutional arrangements and poverty measurement. …The paper examines the performance of the Philippines with respect to the fight against poverty. It reviews the trends … in poverty using the various human development indicators. It also examines the changes in the policy environment over …

This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor … tiers of the value addition chain. The need for a macro-policy designed to eliminate poverty is premised on the argument … that poverty originates in the structural features of society which can only be addressed at the macro-level. Policy …

poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

The present paper discusses the poverty measurement techniques being used in and the poverty profile of Bangladesh … Poverty Monitoring Survey (PMS) conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Poverty in Bangladesh was earlier measured … by direct calorie intake (DCI) method. The food energy intake (FEI) method was first used in the Poverty Monitoring …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … reporting, the EU-SILC data are of great international significance for comparative EU-wide measurement, description, and … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

the assessment of poverty and wealth in affluent countries in general from a CA perspective. Third, we show how this … and nonfinancial issues of poverty and wealth within this integrative framework. …