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Spatial and temporal analyses of women's wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nanivazo, Malokele; Mahrt, Kristi - 2015
This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307923
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308598
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312724
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258036
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The Cage of Poverty
Drayse, Mark - 2016
Welfare reform has increased labor force participation among welfare parents. But is work leading to self-sufficiency or another cycle of defeat for these workers? The answer is that most welfare workers remain trapped in the cage of poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993315
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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach
Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014
We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057114
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Hungry Cooks : Poverty Wages and Homelessness in the Fast Food Industry
Flaming, Daniel; Burns, Patrick - 2023
The fast food industry has a larger share of its workers in poverty than any other industry. The combination of low wages, part-time work and employee churn undercut workers’ ability to pay their rent.Hungry Cooks presents findings showing that fast food workers make up 11 percent of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344658
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(Anti)Poverty Measures Exposed
Lipman, Francine J. - 2018
Few economic indicators have more salience and pervasive financial impact on everyday lives in the United States than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117404
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Poverty is multidimensional : but do we really need a multidimensional poverty index?
Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Vizmanos, Jana Flor V. - 2018
-based indicators, although poverty is multidimensional in nature. Various work on generating a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) has … underlying indicators for the index, the weights assigned to the indicators, as well as the aggregation process. It also reviews … measurements on quality of life (happiness and well-being), on poverty and welfare (including multidimensional poverty) and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993211
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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020
consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being across countries and/or time, we ask whether it is appropriate to use the … deciding whether to use a common equivalence scale in comparisons of economic well-being across place and time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165604