the population of Romania (40% on average) is affected by the risk of being on the verge of poverty. In order to carry out …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages-leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow the … pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …

production, consumption, technical unemployment which has visible effects on the decrease of income of all, but especially on … those in rural areas. All the factors presented increase the risk of poverty for the categories at the limit of this …