Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and … the EU member states use one or several ‘official’ poverty indicators on which success of poverty reduction policy is … regularly monitored. Whereas the US poverty indicator is based on an absolute concept of poverty, the EU Laeken indicator is …

USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U … poverty. The paper looks at the policies they have adopted to address the problem. 'Poverty' is interpreted broadly and hence …

USA is of our own making. US taxpayer financed agricultural subsidies render Mexican farmers unable to compete. Poverty … been ineffective (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2009). Part of what is perceived to be an illegal immigration problem in the … fuels migration (Peace, 2009). If US taxpayers are financing agricultural subsidies that encourage immigration to the USA …

with previous studies, I find that the wage level of AFDC recipients in Missouri was too low to escape poverty, despite …