(1988-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after … five years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), the extreme US$1.25 poverty headcount had reached a …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

Inner-city business development is often proposed as a solution to inner-city poverty. However, research evidence … solutions to inner city poverty should include two components; (1) creating more effective labor market intermediaries to make … poverty problem, any realistic policy to significantly reduce inner-city poverty through enhanced earnings will require tens …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to …

welfare losses – combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years – depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … and compare two important components of those losses – increased mortality and higher poverty – using years of human life …

of fertility on household welfare at the micro level. In this paper we present an empirical analysis of the relationship … between household welfare and fertility for Indonesia - a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and …. Secondly, we explicitly test for the sensitivity of our results with respect to alternative measures of welfare at the …

's and overall welfare levels, at a plausible degree of economies of scale (i. e., Buhmann et al.'s · > 0.65) the poverty …In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is …