This paper illustrates the main regional differences of Italian poverty and presents an econometric analysis of the key … determinants of poverty risk for the period from 1992 to 2008. The results show that an increase by 1% in the unemployment rate and … a lower level of education raise the risk of being trapped in poverty by 0.42% and 1.7%, respectively. Conversely …

. In particular, we quantify theextent to which these schemes contribute to alleviate elderly poverty across Europe …, they are more effective in reducing elderly poverty rates. On the other hand,they fail to ensure a level of financial well …

This paper evaluates poverty sensitivity to growth in mean incomes and distributional changes in Italy across its … Italy to estimate the growth incidence curves and the income and inequality elasticities of poverty. Growth strongly … determines the patterns of poverty; however, inequality appears to have strikingly characterized it as well. A 1% increase in …

paese. I punteggi più alti di GHI si registrano in Asia meridionale e Africa subsahariana. L’Asia meridionale ha ridotto in … cosí rapido. Sebbene l’Africa subsahariana abbia fatto meno progressi negli anni novanta rispetto all’Asia meridionale, ha …

With serious impacts of climate change looming in a few decades, but currrent poverty still high in the developing word …, we ask how to spend development aid earmarked for the poor.  Poverty reduction tends to be strongly linked to economic …-resilient and less environmentally damaging deliver large scale poverty reduction?  Can aid be used for effective poverty reduction …

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset …-mining sectors of the economy.  We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality.  In contrast, overall … growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality.  We also identify growth acceleration …

Abstract The paper analyzes the effects of land reform on social development –poverty and land distribution- at the … impact of land reform on development is the combination of a poverty effect and a land distribution effect. Our findings … suggest that land reform from 1961 onwards has slightly reduced poverty and mildly improved land distribution. Nonetheless …

disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are …

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …