Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty …

underlying factors at work. While lone-parent poverty has fallen dramatically, Canada's overall poverty reduction since mid-1990s … half of the median income), Canada's poverty rate in mid-2000s was above that of the typical OECD country. The study …From 1996 to 2007, the poverty rate among the two million Canadians living in lone-parent families fell by more than …

of poverty in Quebec and in Canada. This contribution is decomposed into a product of the effects of total size and … that regard. Relatively to the rest of Canada, Quebec's social programs are both more generous and more poverty … the components of income are ranked can influence considerably the share of total poverty alleviation allocated to each …

We present and assess extensive statistics regarding poverty rates and depths for Vancouver, B.C., and Canada. We show … that not only are single adults in B.C. the most likely to experience poverty, but they also experience the deepest level … of poverty. Both single adults and single parents who are younger (i.e., ages 18–24) are more likely to be in poverty and …

In Canada, poverty policy and discourse focuses on annual estimates of low income. Assuming that assets, independent … from income, represent an alternative view of well-being we introduce an asset-based measurement of poverty for Canada … asset poverty rates were approximately two to four times higher than the corresponding low-income rates. We show for the …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? "Poverty" is interpreted broadly and hence the …

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …/M) of National Child Benefit (NCB) rules, isolating the impact of these rules on low-income or poverty rates and gaps in … 4.6 per cent between 1996 and 1999 because of the introduction of the NCBS. The drop in the poverty gap was even greater …

This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United … States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household …/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear to be most closely associated with transitions into and out of poverty and the …

Deprivation dominance is a useful concept for evaluating poverty profiles (poverty rate, gap, and inequality among the …---an one-sided joint test for the differences between two poverty profiles. This test operationalizes the concept proposed by … and provide the statistical evidence about the differences in poverty intensity across four Canadian regions …

avoids these problems by using a stochastic dominance approach to compare regional low income profiles in Canada without …