Despite the professed claims of microcredit alleviating poverty, little is known about what kind of credit contract is …

Poverty being multi-dimensional in nature is the product of various interactive socioeconomic factors. Some of the … household. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that explain their relative effect on poverty of the … household. Poverty thus captured at micro level is expected to provide insights for polices to alleviate poverty at national …

housing, and apply various decomposition methods to these one- and multidimensional indices and also to a poverty index. In …

of growth. In particular, that effect tends to reduce poverty while the structural effect tends to increase it. This … conclusion is robust with respect to the choice of poverty measures and RIF regression models. …

Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence of poverty. The … inequality and poverty overall or along ethnic and rural-urban lines. Persistently low tax revenues are the main limiting factor … transfers: poverty after taxes and cash transfers is higher than market income poverty. …

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

To analyse in-work poverty, we build a model in which human capital and productivity varies over time with experience …, time-related obsolescence and poverty. The model reveals four possible trajectories: poverty to exclusion; permanent … poverty; the emergence from poverty; poverty to non-poor worker and back to poverty. It also generates the main traits of in …

issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish citizens, and some of them still cannot … satisfy even basic needs. The improvement of an overall economic situation reduces risk of poverty in general. However, in … case the risk occurs, efficient and effective support measures should be provided. First part of the report defines poverty …