The article focuses on issues of households at risk of poverty in a relative conception. Income poverty represents a … situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty bases on …

This paper analyses the determinants of household welfare in the Northwest region of Tanzania using microlevel cross … section data. Despite having gone through a series of structural adjustment programs in the late-1980s, Tanzania is still … subtle insights into the relationships between gender and poverty. …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …

- on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reduction in the absence of a decline in … remittances reduces poverty, as measured by the head count, poverty gap, and severity ratios (FGT indicators) in both the rural … year. According to all FGT indicators, poverty increases in urban households but not in rural households. The combined …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards “sustainability,” which stresses community mobilization …

This study assesses the impact of income and asset poverty on child work using the rural sub-sample of the 2004 Malawi …