This paper focuses on the methodology by which India's 2002 Below the Poverty Line (BPL) census data identify the poor … to poor families that would be identified using the same variables with the Alkire Foster multidimensional poverty … criticisms regarding BPL data. We compare these results with income poverty and with pseudo-BPL status for sample respondents and …

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims … to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different … model of poverty we have identified, considering various factors as weightings. Methodologically speaking, it is proposed an …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period … 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence decreased, the poverty gap and severity indexes of households in the Program 135 …

The article empirically analyses the phenomenon of vulnerability to poverty – meant as an individual’s likelihood of … the incidence of vulnerability to poverty at national and regional level. We find that potential poverty concerns an … out to be a useful tool which should complement the traditional analysis of poverty. …

said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

This paper presents a discussion on some poverty alleviation programs that are specifically targeted to the poor. The … component of the post-crisis Social Safety Net package. Brief assessments of the programs show that the targeting of poverty … paper concludes that the effectiveness of various poverty-targeted program in Indonesia are determined by, among other …

The article empirically analyses the phenomenon of vulnerability to poverty – meant as an individual’s likelihood of … the incidence of vulnerability to poverty at national and regional level. We find that potential poverty concerns an … out to be a useful tool which should complement the traditional analysis of poverty. …