Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty‐related issues. However, there … subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by empirically estimating best‐fit income … distribution functions for different household income groups and computing poverty and inequality indices for Sri Lanka. Design …

tool for enhancing production and productivity and for poverty alleviation. Further it highlights some of the strategies …

poverty. It also finds adverse public health impacts in terms of rise in malnutrition and hunger, suicide rates, domestic …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the assessment of poverty/deprivation using different conceptions of … of multidimensional poverty. Similarly, more than 62 per cent of individuals who live on more than 1.25USD/day (i.e. non …. Specifically, it analyses the so‐called missing dimensions of poverty. It also applies a new methodology for the assessment of …

income distribution, poverty, and richness was recently proposed. Based on that approach and considering data for the … reference as explanatory variables. Findings – The evidence obtained indicates that: the determinants of poverty and richness … et al. toward an integrated measurement of inequality, poverty, and richness, the present study contributes to this line …

Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to … major contradictions that shed light on the complex relationships between poverty, shame, work and consumption in modern … societies. Research limitations/implications This paper analyses the sources of shame in the experience of poverty and downward …

Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Economic thought and Poverty -- 1 Were Good Times Really that Bad? Mercantilist Views on … Poverty and Employment -- 2 Adam Smith-A Champion for the Poor! -- 3 Malthus and the Poor -- 4 David Ricardo on Poverty -- 5 … Saving the Poor: John Stuart Mill on Poverty and the Poor -- 6 Marx and His Followers on Poverty -- 7 Alfred Marshall …

In Hong Kong, a world class city of prosperity, a 'new poverty' appears ironically. Under the policy blunders of the …