consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of productive resources; Income distribution; and Economic security. Since …

-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a …

Arab population. Based on the Galilee Society's social survey for 2004 Israeli Arab poverty incidence was found to be 52 …% with nearly two thirds in persistent poverty. Among Bedouins in villages unrecognized by the Israeli government it was … nearly 80% with poverty severity about 7 times higher than that of the mainstream Jewish population in Israel, i.e. excluding …

Part I of this chapter briefly reviews the arguments for using consumption rather than income as a measure of living … standards and for using it to measure poverty and inequality. It goes on to discuss the principal uses to which consumption data … other important policy issues that can be illuminated using consumption data. Thereafter, Part I reviews some of the …

aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The Western Development Plan has aimed at narrowing the income gap between … emphasis on education would help reduce the income gap, since human capital is a key determinant of income. Government policies … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

, regarding the purchase and consumption decision. The approach and treatment of the poverty must be understand regarding to the …In the present work I presented the risk of poverty in Romania considering the economic and social determination. I … highlighted that poverty in Romania, is a mix of economic, educational, cultural etc. factors and reinforced by the lack of family …

poses new challenges. The paper argues that, while the impact of the pandemic are unavoidable, the existing poverty levels …

-poor. Estimates show that investments in sealing roads to nearest towns led to higher consumption levels and housing quality, and to …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … composition of households with low living standards if these are identified with consumption rather than income. … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general …