The quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and analysis have often been treated by … on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either the quantitative or the qualitative …

a cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of poverty in Germany from 1986 to 1996, using the Panel Comparability … the level and the intensity of poverty. On the other hand, the longitudinal analysis allows us to follow up the … individuals in time, and therefore to observe the permanence in poverty, and the transition out of poverty. Since the data set …

The present paper examines a simple extension of the standard labour supply model in which a poverty level is …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

Cities and towns are increasingly becoming the primary locus of poverty in many countries. Rural-urban migration and … rapid growth comes an increasing concentration of poverty in urban areas. In parallel, more countries assign local … governments increased responsibility in fighting poverty. With decentralization, the responsibility of local social policy goes …

sensitive to the selection of particular concepts of resources, equivalence scales and poverty lines. This article aims to … examine the robustness of the results of poverty analysis to the use of alternative concepts of resources (consumption …) equivalence scales (subjective, experts' and food-scales) and poverty lines (fractions of the mean of the respective distribution …

DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …