The US rural poverty rate has been consistently higher than the urban rate for several decades. One question might be …. Using annual 1985-2015 data and regressing both poverty rates on the national unemployment rate and the Gini coefficient …

lowerskilled wage employment. The incidence of poverty is widespread but differences between the clusters are clearly visible. Even … the better-off households have consumption poverty headcount ratios of between 37 to 50% at PPP $1.25. For households from … the poorest clusters the poverty headcount ratio amounts to even 70% for income and 80% for consumption. Especially the …

This study examined the impact of rural out-migration on the poverty of migrant-sending households by applying the new … the poverty line and create the poverty indices, respectively. The average annual food and non-food poverty lines are Birr … 8997.52 and 2249.38 per adult equivalent. The incidence, depth, and severity of general poverty are 39.76, 10.11, and 3 …