This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple … caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple … caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …

Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper … income instability as measures of deprivation and analyzes their relationship with perceived and objective well-being. First … perceived well-being and income instability. …

unmarried elderly females, the increase in social security income explains most of the increase in the probability of living …

evaluate the impact of health on the income of working elderly individuals. The results find that health measures have a strong … poverty rates among the elderly. …

importance of different income sources. The decomposition is applied to household survey data from 35 countries from 6 regions in …

The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population … affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the traditional, labor law-based income … better designed mechanism to protect workers against the effects of macroeconomic volatility. The paper argues for an income …