persistent socioeconomic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. Women - by far the largest group of program beneficiaries … to empower and undermine prevailing structures that produce and reproduce poverty and gender disparities. Because the … remedies some of the most entrenched and resilient causes of poverty and gender inequality. The paper examines survey evidence …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …

The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to … use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as …-based composite indicator. Our method generates robust and trustworthy measurements based on a meaningful conceptual model of poverty …

A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typical survey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims … to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different … model of poverty we have identified, considering various factors as weightings. Methodologically speaking, it is proposed an …

Poverty rates of women are usually not or only slightly higher than those of men. Thus the statement "poverty is female …" cannot be confirmed empirically. This is at least the case if the typical poverty measures are used. Nevertheless gender … inequalities and low pay of women are a main source of poverty. This is shown for the case of Germany by empirical investigations …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …