role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a … multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important … dimension and the interdependence of the often only separately counted multiple poverty dimensions. Our paper will contribute to …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century … deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904. Applying Bowley's poverty line we find that … close to Rowntree's estimate of primary poverty for York 1899 and in the range that Bowley found in Northern towns in 1912 …

It is often argued that multi-dimensional measures of well-being and poverty—such as those based on the capability …-provincial ranking of poverty in South Africa in 1995-6. It turns out that this ranking is fairly robust, and that some important policy …-relevant results about the distinction between ‘income’/‘expenditure’ and ‘human’ poverty for the South African context are reinforced …

differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates … account by using municipal housing price indices or by replacing the country-specific poverty line with municipal …-specific poverty lines. Applying Norwegian register data for the period 1993-2001, we find that disregarding the value of local public …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over … also report less satisfaction with life. At the same time, our evidence suggests that relative wealth effect is stronger … for the rich. Similarly, in villages with higher inequality, individuals report less satisfaction with life. However, when …