macroeconomic conditions. Sen’s capabilities approach to poverty, which underlies the HDI, highlights the lack of capacity of the …

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …

determining migration outcomes. This study utilizes experimental data on PROGRESA, Mexico's primary poverty reduction program, to …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective …

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …

Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have rarely, involved bothy developing and developed countries. The … present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demograhpic …

the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects …

the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …