A key way for the world's poor - nearly half of humanity - to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of … to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard but working poor. Two key policy planks in the fight against … poverty should be: raising the returns to self-employment and creating more opportunities to move from selfemployment into …

Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …

Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … one dimension: income. Upcoming multidimensional poverty measures have challenged this established assumption, claiming … that the correlation between the various dimensions of poverty is in fact not strong enough for income to serve as a proxy …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line …

variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear … household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is …