that people who are vulnerable to fall under the poverty line indulge in criminal activities as a consumption smoothing … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … statistically significant impact of poverty, inequitable income growth and low quality of the legal system on incidence of total …

that people who are vulnerable to fall under the poverty line indulge in criminal activities as a consumption smoothing … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … statistically significant impact of poverty, inequitable income growth and low quality of the legal system on incidence of total …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …

decomposition framework. The results show that education, wealth, as well as the employment sector are significant contributors to … income inequality in Indonesia. These findings suggest that any policy aimed at reducing unequal access to education and …

Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … inequalities at national, regional and sector level. For this reason, these studies underlined the relevant role of education in … educational poverty over the period 1975-2004 by using traditional inequality indicators, but adapting them to some features of …

explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining …This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian … these characteristics differentially impact on the risk of poverty in each group. A detailed decomposition of both effects …

expenditure, however, has been on large capital-intensive projects rather than on education and other social spending. More … emphasis on education would help reduce the income gap, since human capital is a key determinant of income. Government policies … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

explaining the higher poverty rates of Blacks, a larger number of dependent children is more closely associated with higher …The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty … rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among …

concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … of insurance companies, pension funds, and funds for public health care education, which have not yet been properly … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for …