This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remote and poorest of the independent states of the … to financial hardship. This will have a damaging long term impact both upon the welfare of the child itself, but also for … community, needs to give urgent consideration to the development of a poverty alleviation strategy. The number of children in …

This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …

, which grows to 10ppts four years after. This is not enough to offset the loss in income on average, and income poverty rises …

will make to the welfare of Canadians. Traditionally, productivity growth was thought to contribute to increased leisure … time, greater consumer satisfaction, the elimination of poverty and greater public support for redistributive efforts to … literature. One possible explanation is that increased consumption does not generate lasting increments in welfare because the …

What is known, based on official poverty data, about spatial poverty profiles (regional, provincial, or rural vs. urban …) as well as poverty changes in recent years, is not quiet robust. The main problem is that the official practice for … poverty comparison is somewhat inconsistent. This paper is proposes a practical approach to measuring the poverty spatial …

. We argue that analysis of subjective wellbeing can be used to enrich and validate the process of poverty analysis in the …