This paper analyses the determinants of household welfare in the Northwest region of Tanzania using microlevel cross … considered one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper argues that the determinants of household welfare are … importance of these factors varies across the welfare distribution. Using quantile regressions, we find that human, social and …

-economic development and how they are more actual for some vulnerable population groups. Following the popular concept of poverty …Poverty reduction has long been one of the political priorities of the European Union and its member states. Despite … the political declarations and measures applied, poverty is still a phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of about 70 …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of … improve welfare outcomes. …

consumption as the welfare indicator. When 40 per cent poverty line is used, the differences are still large in economic terms and … children's access to social services, and children's actual welfare outcomes, measured in terms of health and education … indicators. The results suggest that poverty and female headship are strongly linked in rural Orissa, India. For eample, if we …

This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the … areas. The results show that there has not been any feminization of poverty since 1995. In 1999, the incidence of poverty … among female household heads was lower than that of their male-headed counterparts, but in some cities the poverty gap was …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of … improve welfare outcomes. …

The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated … district level to account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this century which relates to development sans …, the second section deals with some of the debates and measures of development indicators. Section three presents the …

mobility was found to reduce the extent of poverty. The study recommended that policies that improve the welfare of labour and …The increase in the geographical mobility of labour as a result of poverty, unemployment and unstable economic … high level of migration and subsequent remittances from migrants, a large proportion of Nigerians still live in poverty …