and planners to focus on how to measure properly the extent of educational poverty. The main aim of this paper is to … propose a multidimensional adjusted poverty index (α-MAPI) by considering explicitly not only the individual deprivations, but … also the non-deprivation attributes of the poor. It permits to set a precise valuation on school poverty. We apply α …

population in concentrated settlements, separated neighbourhoods or ghettos. The majority live in poverty and face social …

income levels. This paper - a joint product of the Office of the Vice President and the Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction …

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

Contemporary researches on economic inequality and poverty are pointing out that their key causes appear in the field … important terms of poverty. In compliance with findings that submit theoretical and empirical evidence of their connection, they … poverty and economic inequality, as well as reaching the level of development of the most successful CEE and EU countries …