poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …. However, as the Di Bao payments typically are small and many of the urban poor are not receivers, much urban poverty remains …

This paper estimates and maps the multidimensional poverty for rural Pakistan. It uses micro data from household … surveys to construct the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with human development indicators like education, health …, health, standard of living and wealth in the rural multidimensional poverty as overall and district levels. The results show …

poverty gap, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in …This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different …

Several studies report large and persistent differences in standards of living and poverty within a country. In this … paper, we study whether the observed differences in poverty incidence in urban areas are due to differences in the …, differences in the parameters are an important determinant of household income and poverty within a country …

Poverty is correlated with crime, but it is widely assumed that it should not be a defense. In the 1970s, Judge David … have posited that poverty should be a defense to crime based on poverty's coercive aspects or because society forfeits its … right to condemn when it tolerates significant economic inequality. Critics counter that a poverty defense should not be …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …

poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …