This article applies the concept of poverty as insufficiency of basic capabilities in measuring living conditions of … judgments of the people of Rio de Janeiro, who generally regard favela dwellers as poor, and those of poverty experts, who …

welfare and poverty. Our paper seeks to fill some of these gaps proposing an empirical analysis of the role of remittances as … a tool for reducing inequality and covering households against poverty and social exclusion risks. The empirical ….e. remittances) are included. The results show that remittances are statistically significant in terms of poverty reduction even if …

This paper argues that interest on consumer debt must be taken into account when measuring poverty and inequality … conventional government statistics. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, we make estimates of poverty and inequality that take …

indicators to measure the gendered impacts, including income poverty (Foster-Greer-Thorbecke [FGT] Indices), time poverty … (leisure), capability poverty (literacy and infant mortality), and welfare (Equivalent Variation [EV]). The simulation results … workload, deteriorating capabilities, and increasing relative income poverty. However, the effects remained gender neutral or …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U … poverty. The paper looks at the policies they have adopted to address the problem. 'Poverty' is interpreted broadly and hence …

 Social Structure of Accumulation (SSA)   in terms  of their level of analysis, their definition of poverty and  their recommended policy action to tackle poverty … capability, social exclusion, participatory and SSA  approaches  in  addressing    poverty;  they  emphasize  on  social  roots  of  poverty,  on  multidimensional …  aspect  of  poverty,  on  the  role  of  uneven  power  in  getting  to  an  acceptable …

variability and change on economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia. The hydro-crop model is first used to estimate the … DCGE model to assess the impact of climate variability on economic growth and poverty. We find that climate variability … below the national poverty line by 2016. A similar method is also used to examine the potential impact of climate change on …