with little understanding of poverty among India's elderly or its determinants. This paper finds that households with … elderly members do not have higher poverty rates than non-elderly households. This result is robust under various measures … the relative poverty levels of the elderly. -- Old age poverty ; household demographic composition ; adjusted poverty …

analysis of poverty. In this chapter, we examine the poverty incidence among older people across LIS countries, relying on data … from the Luxembourg Income Study. The data show that poverty rates are substantially reduced by redistribution via tax …/benefit systems (mainly via pension benefits). Furthermore, the data show that old-age poverty rates and the antipoverty effect of …

the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …

This study is about chronic poverty and livelihood strategies among the chronically poor elderly women of Ganze … individual chronically poor elderly women were identified by participants during the participatory chronic poverty assessment … constituency. It identifies the socio-economic characteristics of households containing chronically poor elderly women. It also …

Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks, and impairs their ability to save for old age. Many developing … countries have introduced social protection programs to protect poor people from social and economic risks, but despite women …

’Ivoire by endogenizing life expectancy and linking growth and poverty. We then calibrate the model using the country …, and poverty in Côte d’Ivoire. To this end, we discuss three sets of quantitative experiments: broad-based development … (reduction in gender bias in the market place, increase in women’s bargaining power, and reduction in family bias against girls …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which … comparison with OECD countries, but it is not strongly enforced. Poverty among pensioners is set to fall in the future with the …