interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performance. Primary and …

Our previous work argued that the official U.S. poverty definition is flawed because it ignores interest paid on … argues that what is true of poverty is likewise true of income inequality indices, such as the gini coefficient and the …

Despite the professed claims of microcredit alleviating poverty, little is known about what kind of credit contract is …

Poverty being multi-dimensional in nature is the product of various interactive socioeconomic factors. Some of the … household. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that explain their relative effect on poverty of the … household. Poverty thus captured at micro level is expected to provide insights for polices to alleviate poverty at national …

housing, and apply various decomposition methods to these one- and multidimensional indices and also to a poverty index. In …

of growth. In particular, that effect tends to reduce poverty while the structural effect tends to increase it. This … conclusion is robust with respect to the choice of poverty measures and RIF regression models. …

Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence of poverty. The … inequality and poverty overall or along ethnic and rural-urban lines. Persistently low tax revenues are the main limiting factor … transfers: poverty after taxes and cash transfers is higher than market income poverty. …