prosociality. Research has also shown that poverty and economic inequality are major risk factors for the development of problem … behaviors. The paper describes policies that can reduce poverty and benefit youth development. Although it is clear that the …

participation and poverty status. Second, using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the period 1982–2003, we study the … below the poverty line, and they face a reduction in total family income. The results using NHIS confirm a negative impact …

Medicaid provides health insurance for 54 million Americans. Using the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure … decreases poverty rates by 1.0% among children, 2.2% among disabled adults, and 0.7% among elderly individuals. When factoring … in institutionalized populations, an additional 500,000 people were kept out of poverty. Overall, Medicaid kept at least …

. With a relatively low fiscal cost, Mexican social policy could further reduce income inequality and poverty. …

The 2006–2008 food price spike raised concerns about the impact of high commodity prices on poverty in developing … increase in crude oil prices. In this context, extreme poverty increases. As in other countries, the increase in food prices …

development objectives: food security and poverty. We employ a series of evaluation methodologies, including a Quasi … on food security, but no effect on poverty. Investigating possible mechanisms for this result shows that reallocation of … while poverty remained unaffected. …

communities is a product of a combination of cultural issues, household-level poverty, and rural livelihood diversification …

poverty agenda. This is particularly apparent in countries like Uganda where “poverty reduction papers” have been displaced by …

poverty estimates. We find a significant negative correlation between globalization and poverty, robust to several econometric … absolute poverty. …