poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal distribution. We also test the empirical relationship of … the derived semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and them to explain changes in poverty very … well (in fact, better than a related study by Bourguignon (2003) that studied the regular growth elasticity of poverty …