regarding old age, disability, unemployment, sickness, birth of a child, etc. Includes the poverty rates and dependency ratios …

poverty earlier and of being less vulnerable to external factors. References. …

credit, chemical fertilizers and rural institutions, constitute a vicious circle of rural poverty. References. …

initiatives to conteract the poverty situation. …

This paper examines the impact that household and village level characteristics have on environmental dependence and …

Poverty assessment requires and is generally based on the existence of well-defined levels of standard of living …. Therefore, in this paper we try to investigate the opportunities for mesuring poverty offered by economic practice. as well as … poverty as economic deprivation in Romania. In this paper, the construction of an Aggregate Romanian Index of Deprivation …

(SD) tests are performed by year, by household heads' characteristics (age, education, gender, health, marital status and …Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines … determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

states, and geographical areas of the world. Underdevelopment, poverty, unequal rhythms of modernization etc, are factors …