into poverty or be at risk of homelessness. Additional strain is placed upon these families via the costs of prison phone …

-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …

, spotlighting in particular how the reforms will protect millions of households from being pushed into poverty or further into … poverty as a result of paying taxes—a phenomenon called “fiscal impoverishment.” Policy makers must make ARPA’s reforms …

When discussed in public, poverty is often equated with relative income poverty. However, to define poverty exclusively … in terms of low income is to see it too narrowly. The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the proportion of the population earning … and Bulgaria come out worst. Germany has a slightly below-average at-risk-of-poverty rate, putting it in the middle of the …

This paper estimates urban and rural poverty rates across five Chinese administrative regions (Shanghai, Liaoning … types of government transfer payments that households in poverty received and the ability for such payments to lift … households from poverty are also assessed. Consistent with official estimates, the results highlight substantial disparities in …

The existing literature on education and poverty considers mostly primary data from an income point of view. However …, the benefits of education vary from a direct income effect to positive externalities, which can help reduce poverty. This … positive role in alleviating poverty, but that income distribution does not play a key role in poverty alleviation in the …