, growth generated by the boom reduces poverty despite increasing informality. …

system of social assistance (SA) which is not overly generous and to growing poverty. Nevertheless, econometric analysis …

The aim of this study is to give a broad picture of the income distribution and the level of inequality and poverty in … distribution of income, with high levels of inequality associated with high poverty rates. These main findings are not influenced …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife’s share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …

of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. …