In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries’ poverty gap during the period … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3–5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned … assets, or embargoes on most or all economic activity are particularly detrimental and lead to an increase in the poverty gap …

This paper documents and explains the evolution of monetary poverty in Bolivia during the period 1999-2011. First, we … find a significant reduction in both, extreme and moderate, poverty. During the period under analysis, extreme poverty … headcount, gap and severity have reduced in 55%, 67% and 73%; while moderate poverty headcount, gap and severity have reduced in …

forest cover change and alleviate poverty. We examine protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon using high-resolution satellite …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China’s aging population …

(ESAM I and ESAM II) and the Survey of Poverty Monitoring in Senegal (ESPS). The analysis was carried out using four tools … and growth rate equivalent to poverty. We find that growth was absolute pro-poor and not relative pro-poor in Senegal from …

Catastrophe and poverty increased from 2004 to 2010. However, given that the realization of some recent policies will …

methods are discussed from the point of view of different policy aims (poverty and tax analyses). This study uses 2010 EU …-SILC data and provides an assessment of the impact of the housing situation of households on relative poverty and inequality and … corresponding transition matrices into and out of poverty, according to the two approaches for measuring the housing situation. The …

People’s explanations for why some individuals are poor are of great importance to a comprehensive study of poverty …. This cross-cultural study aims to profile differences and similarities in perceptions of the causes of poverty within and … and seven classes of individuals. Despite the generalization of the social explanations of poverty at the individual level …