of average wages. During the period of interest, the rates of poverty and extreme poverty in the region respectively fell … by 11 and 6 percentage points (p.p.). It is highly pertinent, in this context, to study the dynamics of poverty in the … region and to analyze the flows into and out of poverty that accompanied this significant reduction in poverty. The main …

times the World Bank Poverty Line (WBPL) in North America while only two times the WBPL in Latin America.  These wages place …

The current contribution presents poverty indicators for West and East Germany for the years 1995 and 2009. The … years. As the results show, old age poverty has increased in both parts in Germany with East German women being an exception …

This study estimates chronic and transitory rates of poverty in Australia using the concept of permanent income and … longitudinal data covering the period July 2001 through June 2007. We sketch a picture of chronic and transitory poverty over the … life cycle by decomposing the poverty rate for the entire population into poverty rates for age categories that range from …

The aim of this study is to state the components which determine the poverty of households in Turkey according to … Turkey Statistical Institute for the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Results demonstrate that poverty risk decreases … when the head of the household’s age and education level increases, results also demonstrate that rural household’s poverty …