Preventing and alleviating child poverty constitute main concerns for the strategies and policies in the field of … social protection and social inclusion in the European Union, and significantly reduce child poverty, as one of the core … objectives of these strategies. Setting up policies of child poverty alleviation implies knowing the dimensions and …

this, a clear template emerges for understanding poverty and alleviating it. …

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become … a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely … low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds that are adjusted only for inflation rather than for changes …

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …

persistent socioeconomic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. Women-by far the largest group of program beneficiaries … and undermine prevailing structures that produce and reproduce poverty and gender disparities. Because the latter two … some of the most entrenched and resilient causes of poverty and gender inequality. The paper examines survey evidence based …

persistent socioeconomic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. Women - by far the largest group of program beneficiaries … to empower and undermine prevailing structures that produce and reproduce poverty and gender disparities. Because the … remedies some of the most entrenched and resilient causes of poverty and gender inequality. The paper examines survey evidence …

The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …

When ever the Planning Commission of India releases the poverty data, that data is being criticised by experts and … economists. The main criticism is underestimation of poverty especially in rural India by the Planning Commission. This paper … focuses on that criticism and compares the Indian Planning Commission’s 2004-05 rural poverty data with the India’s 2400 kcal …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …