developing economies, it is found that the fraction of the population below the poverty line is linearly dependent upon gender …Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of the components of human capital on the extent of poverty and income … alleviate poverty and improve the distribution of income. Originality/value – This paper provides useful information on the …

moved up higher along that curve, with less differentiated gender roles, women's stronger labor force attachment, and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the determinants of rural and national poverty, of income … 2008 World Development Report. The author applies the least‐squares estimation technique in a multivariate linear … national rural poverty line in a developing country is dependent upon the logarithm of per capita purchasing power parity gross …

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the inter‐temporal causal relationship between financial development and poverty … Kenya a spur to poverty reduction? Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a trivariate causality model based on … savings rate as an intermittent variable in the bivariate causality setting between financial development and poverty …

Purpose – This study seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Is there a relationship between poverty and … income inequality in the short run/long run? Is the relationship unidirectional from income inequality to poverty as the … income inequality and poverty within a multivariate framework using a panel data set of 50 US states over the period 1980 to …

. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the latest Sri Lankan Household Income and Expenditure Survey. The study … households characteristics such as geographic location/sector, gender, education and type of employment. Inequality within and … overall inequality. Thus, reducing inequality between the household groups would have only limited effect on reducing the …

specific empirical focus on the relationship between household structure and poverty.  …Outlines a method for controlling for compositional factors in the measurement of poverty. Bases the method on “shift …‐share analysis” and “direct standardization”, consistent with Sen’s (1976) influential axiomatic approach to poverty measurement …

indices of well-being with Chinese Household Income Project Survey 2002 data. Design/methodology/approach – The authors follow …