Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

This paper empirically examines the effect of financial development on poverty for a sample of developing countries … development on the poor when poverty is measured by the headcount index or the poverty gap at the cut-off line of $2 day (absolute … poverty). This finding is robust to the choice of a more conservative poverty line based on $1.25 a day. However, there is …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

Poor people are trapped in a vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty. This study critically reviews existing … literature to explore why long-lasting poverty exists despite various initiatives taken by national and international development … (education & skills) is one of the most important factors that facilitate the intergenerational transmission of poverty in …

Empirical research on poverty today often goes beyond a focus on income to consider other dimensions of well …-being. However, relatively few multidimensional poverty measures explicitly consider time, despite its particular relevance to women …'s double burden of paid and unpaid work. We construct a bivariate relative poverty line between income and leisure, based on …

.Widowhood poverty is no greater than that overall,but the picture changes dramatically if we allow economies of household size …

poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details … of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed mechanics shape and reshape poverty measures and the too often uninformed … responses and remedies. This Article will build a bridge from personal portraits of families living in poverty to the resource …