, including a continuation of the currency board and market reforms. Poverty in 2001 has become more concentrated among distinct … and identifiable groups within the population than in previous years. In this regard, the profile of poverty in Bulgaria … has come to resemble poverty patterns in other countries in Central and Eastern European countries more closely. The …

This paper concentrates on official statistics on household income, poverty, and wealth. It characterizes the main … improvement of survey methods and extended questionnaires of the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS) and the German contribution … to the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU SILC). We also recommend a harmonization of the …

increasingly diversify their income sources. Yet the potential roles of income diversification on poverty reduction particularly … other studies on income diversification, this study examined the effect of income diversification on poverty reduction among …The desire to increase household income and insure against agricultural production risk has led rural households to …

will probe the causal relationship among the energy poverty, income polarization, growth and income poverty. The study is … based on the hypotheses; (I) Does energy poverty cause income polarization? (II) Does energy poverty is a factual impediment … to growth? (III) Does the energy poverty spur income poverty? And, whether the alternative also exist against these …