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...

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health...

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health...

This paper shows that poor households’ entitlement to an exogenous, temporary, but guaranteed income stream increases Mexican migration to the United States, although this income is mainly consumed. Some households use the entitlement to this income stream as collateral to finance the...

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 the point of view of an acceptable life...

El pensamiento económico ha evolucionado en lo relacionado al crecimiento económico:éste, al principio, se consideró un fin y en los últimos años un medio para lograr eldesarrollo humano. Así mismo, los términos desarrollo y crecimiento, si bien no sonrecientes en la literatura...

This paper describes the policies pursued by Malaysia in her attempt to attain growth with equity, which she has achieved relatively well. These include education provision and employment creation, export-oriented industrialisation, rural development, and restructuring equity ownership and asset...

El presente capítulo se organiza en siete secciones. Luego de la introducción, en la segunda sección se presenta una discusión conceptual de la pobreza desde el punto de vista de las capacidades propuesto por Amartya Sen. La tercera sección revisa la metodología de la pobreza...

In Chile, income is distributed on a substantially more equitable basis among younger generations than older generations. There is a greater social mobility and less poverty in the younger generations. The overall trends "are going well," but social policy has not been adapted to this new...

Este artículo toma información de la segunda y la tercera Encuesta Nacional de Verificación de los Derechos de la Población Desplazada, realizadas por la Comisión de Seguimiento, el CODHES y el CID, y estudia diferentes indicadores de pobreza y calidad de vida para la población desplazada,...