Economic growth is a driving force in reducing poverty, but experience has shown that good governance and pro …-poor choices are vitally important in the process of alleviating poverty. This paper explores linkages between governance and pro … the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality …

This field verification study is part of the effort to develop small-area poverty maps for all regions in Indonesia …. The small-area poverty maps that contain consumption based poverty estimates at the provincial, district, sub-district and … module, the 2000 Village Survey (PODES) and the 2000 Population Census, using the small-area estimation method (poverty …

that makes eliminating poverty and sustaining development the overriding objective of global development efforts. In the … is less than a dollar a day (a widely used yardstick to measure extreme poverty). However, estimating such poverty across … a brief summary of the state of the art in global poverty estimates, including the problems as well as the possible …

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy …

In essence, the main cause of poverty and the impossibility to reach a certain life standard derive from lack of income …. Discussing the poverty phenomenon implies the delimitation of the population from the point of view of territoriality and from … community. In this paper, poverty is analysed both methodologically and conceptually. Therefore, the paper presents aspects …

This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in …

op het totale armoedecijfer per saldo verwaarloosbaar was. As a result of the persistent economic recession, poverty has … Netherlands over a 25-year period by applying a generalised budget approach. According to this criterion poverty steadily declined … ethnic minorities below the poverty line. The shrinking group of single earners came to experience a much higher poverty risk …

Poverty is correlated with crime, but it is widely assumed that it should not be a defense. In the 1970s, Judge David … have posited that poverty should be a defense to crime based on poverty's coercive aspects or because society forfeits its … right to condemn when it tolerates significant economic inequality. Critics counter that a poverty defense should not be …

More than half of the Mexican population lives in poverty. While there are many studies about poverty in Mexico, there … are very few studies about the dynamics of poverty. The purpose of this paper is to measure chronic and transient poverty … socioeconomic and demographic variables upon the dynamics of poverty. Findings It was found that 36 percent of households are …