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 …

strong relationship between economic freedom, poverty reduction and income inequality. Results reveal that larger the … business freedom and / or trade freedom, greater the economic growth. This will ultimately reduce poverty in the country …. -- economic freedom indicators ; pro-poor growth ; poverty ; inequality ; Pakistan …

We study cross-sectional and long-term poverty in Sweden over a period spanning two recessions, and discuss changes in … the policy context. We find large increases in absolute poverty and deprivation during the 1990’s recession but much … smaller increases in 2008-2010. While increases in non-employment contributed to increasing poverty in the 1990’s, the …

When discussed in public, poverty is often equated with relative income poverty. However, to define poverty exclusively … in terms of low income is to see it too narrowly. The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the proportion of the population earning … and Bulgaria come out worst. Germany has a slightly below-average at-risk-of-poverty rate, putting it in the middle of the …

countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances …' remittances on economic growth and poverty in 21 Latin American countries. The study uses annual data covering all Latin American … addition, we estimate the short-run and long-run effects of workers' remittances on economic growth and poverty on individual …

climate change on achieving pro-poor economic growth in Africa. Predicated on poverty-inequality-climate analysis, the …

government expenditure over the level of tax revenue collection, and poverty. The results reveal a negative relationship between … government expenditure and poverty based on time series data from 1976 to 2010. The short run and long run relationships between … poverty and other variables are identified by ECM model and Johnson Cointegration test respectively. The results show that …