and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …

improves the wellbeing of the poorest groups, it is the richer groups that benefit the most.foreign aid, poverty, well …

We review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the … choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power parity exchange rates, equivalence scales, data sources, and …-household inequalities and potentially influencing poverty estimates. Based on a sensitivity analysis of global poverty estimates to …

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 …

This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with … disastrous results.In recent years, poverty has generally been understood in ‘relative' terms. That is, people are regarded as … poor if they earn less than some benchmark relative to average earnings. One perverse result of such relative poverty …