The Scottish National Party led Scottish Government has identified household poverty as a key focus for its anti-poverty strategy. The government's "Solidarity Target" seeks to both increase wealth and increase the share of total income gained by these three deciles. The ability to demonstrate...

This paper explores relationships between gender, mobile phone ownership, education, age, urbanity, job type, poverty group and ownership of official identification on determining financial inclusion. Financial inclusion is defined as a person using either their own registered bank account or...

"In wealthy nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issues of poverty and homelessness have often been displaced or sidelined by the accelerating number of studies on income inequality and wealth disparity. In Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity, Gregg M. Olsen...

This paper assesses child poverty in 24 high- and middle-income countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database. We assess poverty patterns using both relative and absolute poverty standards, to account for variation in income levels both within and across countries. We...