Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast … Organization laws on agriculture and farmers, the media’s spotlight on starvation deaths and, finally, the Supreme Court of India … situation prevailing in India and reviews the obligations and initiatives by the government of India to ensure food security …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … school, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico … and Chile experienced significant reductions of multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small …

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 …

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy … income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some …

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 …. This paper employs recently collected data on household consumption in Mozambique to examine the evolution of consumption …

. 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 …

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … traditional poverty measurement to refer to income-independent equivalence scales is principally avoided. Moreover, the further … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is …

Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005–2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing … the percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. Poverty reduction was …

produce poverty measures at the commune-level in Cambodia using the small-area estimation technique developed by Elbers … high, we found that they are on average small enough to be useful. We illustrate the application of poverty maps with …