In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … that, unlike the standard measures of unemployment or poverty, account for the amount of vulnerability that exists in … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … between national income per capita and life expectancy. Other studies (e.g., those reviewed in Cochrane et al., 1980) have … economic status, measured by income, and child survival (Anker and Knowles, 1980; Carvajal and Burgess, 1978; Farah and Preston …

the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of programs on national employment and income. A special purpose version … federal budget. Energy savings, investments, and impacts on U.S. national employment and wage income are reported by program … 332,000 jobs and about $5.3 billion in wage income (1995$) by the year 2030. Because the required investments to achieve …

countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries … structural malaise that traps them in a vicious circle of poverty. They advocate the radical reshaping of the international …

growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the population and reduce poverty. The poverty head count index is ….6 percentage point reduction due to growth and a 1.2 percentage point increase due to inequality change.Since poverty is most … better business environment and infrastructure. The country needs a new trading arrangement with the European Union. Poverty …

poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has …This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second …

market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … other hand, minimum wage increases can have a direct positive impact on family income and may therefore help to reduce … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposedto the forces of …