’éducation et l’emploi du chef du ménage ou de l’épouse, et la taille du ménage. To help prepare Liberia’s poverty reduction …Afin de préparer la Stratégie de Réduction de la Pauvreté du Liberia, une enquête sur les indicateurs essentiels du … bien-être a été réalisée par l’Institut des Statistiques et des Services Géo-Informationnels du Liberia. Cet article s …

How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post … poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions …

Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

We measure area-specific human poverty in the European Union (EU) at the second level of the nomenclature of … territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2). We construct a regional human poverty index (RHPI), which comprises four dimensions … regarding the relative standing of a given country with respect to its level of poverty and shows the variability of poverty …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …