As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of … economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confident can we be that the data actually support these inferences? At the … international level, the regular revision of purchasing power parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates, changing …

in advancing our current understanding of the relationship between violent conflict and household poverty. Micro … through to household poverty, as well as the potential impact of household poverty on conflict. This framework suggests three …-level empirical evidence on the relationship between violent conflict and poverty has been scarce and at times contradictory. This …

is the emergence of energy poverty, a condition where households are living in inadequately heated homes. This paper … examines the institutional and demographic underpinnings of energy poverty in Macedonia and the Czech Republic, two post … 'hidden' geography of poverty encapsulates the character of domestic energy deprivation among these populations. Energy …