protection against poverty in old age, as they fail to provide adequate support to vulnerable groups e.g., individuals with … likely to eliminate poverty in old age more effectively than current income financing. …

. Using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measure of poverty among pensioners, we find that allowing for implicit claim costs … incurred by benefit recipients raises the measured degree of poverty by not more than 13%. …

show that thanks to debt and/or R&D the poverty trap may be avoided. Second, we introduce a distorsion : corruption which …

This comment on Rebecca Blank's “Poverty, Policy, and Ethics: Can an Economist be Critical and Caring?” celebrates her …

The Chilean neoliberal approach to welfare has received much attention due to its emphasis on poverty reduction and … poverty by focusing on a social programmme targeted at female heads of households. …

revision of the literature according to the measure of poverty. We describe the historic evolution that the poverty has had. We … also show the different kinds of poverty lines or thresholds that we can use to assess the very complex phenomenon of … poverty. Finally, we show the poverty indicators that several authors have introduced through the beginning of the twentieth …