the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

Categorical essence, structure, and multilevel institutional and functional foundations of the welfare state are … discovered in the monograph. Criteria, chronological limits, and content of the stages of arising, creation, development, and … descend of the welfare state with accounting of modern tendencies are defined. Critical analysis of the Chilean pension system …

note a decrease in real incomes accompanied by a decrease in poverty incidence. A comparison of income and expenditure … poverty reduction, we really need to bring the economy to a higher growth path. The second is that lapses in economic … performance, even if only momentary, are costly in terms of poverty reduction efforts. We recommend that a comprehensive poverty …

usefulness of robust dominance methodology to evaluate the outcome of various policies. Originality/value – The novelty of the … paper is to be one of the first to apply empirically new dominance criteria th at are specifically designed to compare …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

external capabilities. Despite endeavouring to fight poverty, social policy cannot guarantee the benign external conditions …