Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

, and who feltunder both time and income pressure. These interviews gave the researcher someinsight into the nature of the …, quantitative,phase of the project, based on the UK Time Use Survey (TUS) 2000. The TUS is anationally representative household … disposable income actually available toindividuals and families, and a simulation of other time-income combinationspotentially …

Following the implementation of the government’s fuel poverty strategy in 2001, Warm Front is expected to make a …’s target of eliminating fuel poverty among vulnerable households by 2010, based largely on the recommendations in a recent … and fuel poverty.[...] …

cultural contexts of household economy, particularly women's roles in it, goes back to my childhood in Tehran, Iran, where I …