Unemployment insurance is an important social protection policy that buffers unemployed workers against poverty and … predictive of poverty and health outcomes. Less work has used theory-driven approaches to understand and explain how and why … seeks to unpack how contextual influences trigger relevant mechanisms to generate poverty and health outcomes. In this …

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …

county of Mu? province and its villages in the Eastern Anatolia region, where poverty is very intensely experienced (both in …

This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households …’ expenditures. They are also significantly associated with a decline in the probability of being in poverty for rural households; it …

housing conditions, as well as poverty as a key indicator provide evidence to this effect. It would thus appear that the …

Poverty is largely a rural phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa and the key contributors to poverty are low mean per capita … poverty were investigated in this study using the 2003/04 National Living Standard Survey by the National Bureau of Statistics … across the GPZs, the contributions of mean income to change in poverty rates were higher than inequality (Ly) for both …

This study estimates the impact of income remittances on poverty rates by estimating household income under the counter … migration intensity. Findings indicate that the ability of remittances to reduce poverty levels varies between groups, and … across differing poverty thresholds. I find that remittances generally tend to reduce poverty in recipient communities …