This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach … variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty to crime. Secondly, data is analysed using an ARDL ECM. The quarterly … sample data for our estimation is for the period 1995-2016. We found a strong association between crime and poverty both in …

Over the past two decades consumption inequality has risen within Laos, while absolute poverty incidence halved. The …

poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …