Views on poverty are deeply rooted in cultural frameworks about the human condition shaped by histories. In the debate … on modernity, perspectives on poverty oscillate between: a) making the poor – their ‘moralsÂ’ and ‘cultureÂ’  … participation. This is evident in the discourses on poverty, which surfaced in the context of capitalist industrialisation and …

, assesses present governmental policies and methods and presents key options. The paper relies on the Vietnam Living Household …

Changes in the extent of poverty are affected not only by growth in the mean income but also by changes in the … distribution of income. The effect of these two factors can be separately measured by decomposing the total change in poverty. In … available household survey data. The findings of this paper suggest that the role of inequality remained important in mitigating …

This paper examines the incidence of income inequality and poverty, and the impact of farm income on inequality. A … detailed typology of farm households (FHs) is developed, based on Household Budget Survey micro-data. Research findings reveal … enormous variations among households with respect to income inequality and poverty. While Marginal- and Pluriactive- FHs do not …

information on households’ income per capita, and compares their income with a defined poverty line. A household is identified as …To estimate the poverty rate at the commune level, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs firstly collects … a poor one if their income per capita is below the poverty line. Then, the poverty rate of a commune is simply the ratio …