This paper analyses poverty persistence in Italy and compares it with France, Greece, Portugal, Spain and the United …-2012. Descriptive statistics and transition matrices reveal that households in Italy are characterised by a higher degree of poverty … has the lowest value (0.07). Italy also shows an impact of individual characteristics on current poverty lower, in …

Child poverty is firmly on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. One of the main issues in the debate is the … appropriate balance between the so-called “benefits strategy” (increasing the adequacy of benefits for low-income families with … children) and the so-called “work strategy” (promoting policies to increase employment among poor families). The need to choose …

poverty and, other hand, to identify the existence of child welfare inequality and then analyse their sources in four WAEMU … countries like: Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Niger and Togo. Basing our methodology on multidimensional poverty approach, the … results show that some factors explain the child poverty in these countries: the access to the vitamin A, the quality of …

analysis finds evidence of both income and poverty convergence among municipalities. As a cause of these, the results point to …Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico …