describes the main features of poverty in Namibia and assesses the appropriateness of current as well as potential policies to … alleviate poverty and reduce income inequality over time. …

Luzon Island, have indicated that rural poverty alleviation began partly due to the increased investment in education …

between indicators of poverty, inequality and ethnic diversity and social violence. These results indicate that social and …

The article reviews psychoanalytic scholarship on the themes of poverty and deprivation available on the Psychoanalytic … Electronic Publications (PEP-web). The article evaluates select definitions and explanations of poverty as illustrated in the … very little to say about poverty or the poor. In spite of references to the poverty of dreams, poverty of affect, poverty …

The article examines the close nexus between disability and poverty that renders the disabled people the poorest among …

nature of shame. The article argues that the heavy emphasis on problem-oriented coping with shame of poverty helps the …

Standard tax and benefit incidence analysis is used to estimate the effects of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality … in Peru. Results suggest that the extent of inequality and poverty reduction induced by Peru’s fiscal policy is small … are especially effective in reducing extreme poverty in rural areas. We also find that in-kind transfers are effective in …

? A standard fiscal incidence analysis shows that Uruguay achieves a nontrivial reduction in inequality and poverty when …

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …

leakages in transfers to the nonpoor and to the small size of per beneficiary transfers. The impact of fiscal policy on poverty …