Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its … announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been …

The aim of this paper is to construct a multidimensional poverty indicator, to detect the main poverty risk focuses in … poverty ; indicator ; factor analysis …

The aim of this study is to present the most important factors that explain multidimensional poverty in Spain …, highlighting the relationships between the explanatory elements themselves in the spirit of enhancing the effects of poverty policy … and the type of employment contract are the most important variables to explain multidimensional poverty …

The present work estimates poverty and inequality indices in various groups that are known to have high contributions … to poverty and inequality, such as farmers, pensioners and families with 3 or more children. Using the bootstrap … technique, we estimate confidence intervals for these indices and examine if the decrease of poverty and inequality during the …

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two …-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated … seeks to understand the relationship between poverty, socioeconomic status and urban or rural residence depends on survey …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …

income inequality ; Poverty risk ; SOEP … development, the poverty risk in western Germany fell slightly from 2009 to 2010, while it remained unchanged in the eastern part …

. -- economic freedom indicators ; pro-poor growth ; poverty ; inequality ; Pakistan … strong relationship between economic freedom, poverty reduction and income inequality. Results reveal that larger the … business freedom and / or trade freedom, greater the economic growth. This will ultimately reduce poverty in the country …

The present article reviews poverty studies in Spanish Autonomous Communities using a new methodological approach. One … of the main concerns in those studies is poverty concentration in specific Spanish Autonomous Communities. This can be … the result of a bias due to use a unique national poverty line, since the circumstances of every family unit, specifically …