We examine the sensitivity of poverty comparisons across countries with dissimilar household needs when equivalence … scale parameters are varied. We use a sample of Spanish and British households, using both absolute and relative poverty …

-time employed individual who are more likely to fall into poverty. The main reason pushing a household into or out of poverty seems … characteristics of the household appear to significantly affect the probability of re-entering poverty for the most mobile group of … should modify any economic policy aiming for Social Welfare maximisation. Poverty is defined as a state of economic hardship …

Investigates the nature and determinants of income distribution and poverty, and explores the relationships between … indicators of income status and poverty and demographic indices. …

policy, incomes policy and basic needs satisfaction in Fiji - discusses poverty, household income and consumer expenditure …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …

China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is … important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and … the issue of regional disparities in poverty distribution in China. It finds an increasing concentration of the rural poor …

poverty and exclusion leads to improved child protection outcomes; and potential synergies in implementation of social …

BRAMLEY G., LANCASTER S. and GORDON D. (2000) Benefit take-up and the geography of poverty in Scotland. Reg. Studies 34 … , 507-519. Renewed interest in poverty and social exclusion and the greater availability of welfare benefits information at … local and small area level create new opportunities for the analysis of the geography of poverty to inform regeneration and …