Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in … distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes … the characteristics of poverty among the working population based on gender and other household attributes. It measures …

The purpose of this research is to examine the poverty phenomenon indicators in Poland through the prism of sustainable … development. The subject of poverty and its consequences is often omitted in the discussion of sustainable development, or … Development Goals (SDGs). The study will cover the problem of poverty in Poland, together with the assessment of the potential of …

Changes in the extent of poverty are affected not only by growth in the mean income but also by changes in the … distribution of income. The effect of these two factors can be separately measured by decomposing the total change in poverty. In … the adverse effects of growth on poverty during the first period, 1998-99 to 2001-02. Alternatively, the role of growth …

from an agricultural to an industrial economy as well as improved quality of life and income distribution with low poverty …

In essence, the main cause of poverty and the impossibility to reach a certain life standard derive from lack of income …. Discussing the poverty phenomenon implies the delimitation of the population from the point of view of territoriality and from … community. In this paper, poverty is analysed both methodologically and conceptually. Therefore, the paper presents aspects …

the world in a sample of about 50 countries. The paper focuses particularly on the fact to prioritize poverty as the most … important problem, as poverty constitutes an important dimension of inequalities. Differences between countries appear: the … richer the country, the less poverty is considered as the most important problem. To explain these differences, two …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit’s quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist’s quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …

-relevant work on poverty measurement. The paper also presents results on empirical exercises comparing trends in inequality, and … various poverty lines in India in the recent past. The paper concludes with policy observations on economic reforms in India …, and directions for further empirical research on poverty. …