poverty. It also finds adverse public health impacts in terms of rise in malnutrition and hunger, suicide rates, domestic …

Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there … subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by empirically estimating best-fit income … distribution functions for different household income groups and computing poverty and inequality indices for Sri Lanka. Design …

. This paper reviews the long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make a significant impact on poverty and …

Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the political agenda. The key new issue addressed in this … research is the relative importance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlates of outcomes later in life. How … childhood poverty? If there are powerful associations of both childhood poverty and early parenthood with later adult outcomes …

-social stress. Over half the population is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen, joblessness has increased, school … alleviating poverty and encouraging regeneration that increase employment opportunities, improve the social safety net, and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the assessment of poverty/deprivation using different conceptions of … of multidimensional poverty. Similarly, more than 62 per cent of individuals who live on more than 1.25USD/day (i.e. non …. Specifically, it analyses the so-called missing dimensions of poverty. It also applies a new methodology for the assessment of …

It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

ILO pub. Article examining the effect of economic dependence on poverty alleviation and basic needs satisfaction in …