credit, chemical fertilizers and rural institutions, constitute a vicious circle of rural poverty. References. …

initiatives to conteract the poverty situation. …

poverty as economic deprivation in Romania. In this paper, the construction of an Aggregate Romanian Index of Deprivation … poverty and social exclusion. The proposed index focuses on specific issues such as combining a number of indicators, chosen …Poverty assessment requires and is generally based on the existence of well-defined levels of standard of living …

-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall …

begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

states, and geographical areas of the world. Underdevelopment, poverty, unequal rhythms of modernization etc, are factors …

This article explores the determinants of working poverty in the European Union. At the individual and household level …, the factors contributing to working poverty differ in importance across countries. Nonetheless, being a lone parent … risk factors. Low pay, under-employment and family structures combine to explain working poverty. At the national level …