In Uruguay, social spending reduces poverty. The aim of this paper is to compare its performance for children and the … elderly. The main motivation is that in Uruguay, as in the rest of Latin America, poverty affects mostly children, even after … the recent period of fall in poverty. The methodological strategy consists on the estimation of the effect of transfers on …

The paper presents the main results of the Eurosystem�s Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) with an … reveal a mean household gross income below the euro-area average. The concentration of income in Italy is roughly positioned … at a median position, while the index of relative poverty is comparatively high. Among the main countries of the euro …

Survey on Household Income and Wealth (1991-2010). The crisis has intensified the trends already under way, as confirmed by … people and tenants. Overall inequality in wealth distribution has increased. Poverty indicators based on income and wealth …, had sufficient financial asset to survive at the poverty line for barely six months. This percentage increases to 15 per …

exclusion and poverty. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the main measures of over-indebtedness used in the … literature. In particular, the paper uses data from the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth to extend the existing … of over-indebtedness are subsequently compared with the measures of poverty in order to disentangle the relationship …

-term unemployment rate and people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and, as crime variables we use four different types of crimes … direct and significant correlation between poverty and crime. Our results thus indicate that for Romania poverty is a …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is one of the most important anti-poverty policies worldwide. In this document … program’s impact on output, human capital, poverty and income inequality. I also study its welfare implications and its … effects on the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The quantitative analysis reveals that a long-term implementation of …

change conditions in future will have strong implications for the region's food-security and poverty, given that a large …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is one of the most important anti-poverty policies worldwide. In this document … program’s impact on output, human capital, poverty and income inequality. I also study its welfare implications and its … effects on the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The quantitative analysis reveals that a long-term implementation of …