Using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the period 2000-2004 we investigate poverty trends in … Russia. We find that urban poverty declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a … characteristics or shares, is not dependent on the use of a particular poverty line nor is it driven by the rapid expansions that have …

for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by …

second part of a research on regional inequalities in income distribution. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept …

Using data from the RLMS for the period 2000-2004 we investigate poverty trends in Russia. We find that urban poverty … declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a largely rural phenomenon for the … dependent on the use of a particular poverty line nor is it driven by the rapid expansions that have occurred in Moscow, St …

The aim of this paper is the definition and measurement of the concept of poverty of families in nine regions of Italy …. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a single measure of well-being can be … national poverty line in targeting for social policies might introduce inequality within regions and families who face …

relatively high income region of Italy. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a … is far more elusive. Using a national poverty line as targeting for social policies might introduce inequality between … income testing in the identification of eligibility rules to relieve immediate poverty and to prevent it in the longer term. …

The Appalachian mountain region has long been characterized by deep poverty which led to the formation of the … York to Mississippi (Ziliak 2012). The ARC region had an average county poverty rate of over 40 percent in 1960, about … double the national average (Deaton and Niman 2012; Ziliak 2012). While the poverty gap between the ARC region and the rest …