Poverty has been ubiquitous throughout history and across nations. It exists even in the richest nations amidst the … unprecedented prosperity of the 21st century. The promises of the global era do not lessen the urgency of coping with the poverty … dealing with poverty. It focuses on the effectiveness of the welfare reforms of 1996. Based on the US experiences, we purport …

generates a great tension to the government specially that a quarter of the population is living in poverty and relies on food …

. These crises affect poverty and the distribution of income through a variety of channels: slowdowns in economic activity … incidence of poverty and income distribution, and discusses policy options that can be considered by governments in the … with an increase in poverty and, in some cases, income inequality. The provison of targeted safety nets and the protection …

In this paper, we simulate the poverty effect of the Covid-19 pandemic in North Macedonia and we analyze the income … have been pushed into poverty by COVID-19, where 340,000 were already poor before the pandemic. Of the 120,000 newly poor …, about 16,000 would have been pushed into destitute poverty. The government’s automatic stabilizers worked to shield the …

suggested. Rather than the universal devastation in poverty, employment, education and health so widely predicted and repeated … commodities (large parts of Sulawesi, Sumatra). The new data also show that pre-crisis economic status or poverty rates are not …