-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a …

"Hard times for African refugees": Flight and migration from the Third World countries have assumed a previously … poor and deprived, the elderly, women and children, suffer the most. African refugees are particularly disadvantaged in … African refugees and migrants on Europe as bargaining chip for more development aid, and the alliance of German domestic and …

the cheaper product is in their consumption basket. These welfare gains through consumption, on average, are found to be …

Decline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some of its concomitants … success of institutionalized cooperation and of increasing system complexity, when cognitive conditions for effective …

employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … sources away from farm to nonfarm activities. Increased participation in nonfarm employment has been more pronounced among the …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity via a case study of Kenya. I … the possibility of employment and the level of wages. I do this using data from the 1986 Labor Force Survey which due to … politically dominant national group has no effect on likelihood of employment in one of the premium categories. My findings …

improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings …

improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings … inequality. -- oportunidades ; human capital ; schooling ; health ; poverty ; inequality …