-headed households to those with a male head. These households are characterised by different forms of poverty that impinge on their … female-headed households’ productivity is lower than that found for male-headed households. General poverty alleviation …

The analysis presented in this paper considers the impact on poverty rates of the Labour government’s tax and benefit … NMW to direct poverty reduction and to “making work pay”. It concludes that the main contribution made by the NMW to … poverty reduction at the household level is probably through its role in underpinning the operation of in-work top-up benefits. …

We propose a new methodological framework to empirically analyze the dynamics of growth, poverty, and inequalitythat … that empirical variables for growth, poverty, and inequality are often compiled from the distribution of the welfare … inequality explain a substantial portion of the Philippine-Thai difference in growth and poverty reduction during the late 1980s …

We develop a model of child labour where poverty and inequality combine to determine policy response to child labour …

of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. …

during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo …

, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …

-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but … industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty … has the least poverty incidence while rural has the highest. The generally favourable poverty effects are due to the …

Three main changes in thinking about poverty have gained increasing currency over the past decade. First, the concept … of poverty has broadened, with increasing attention to issues of vulnerability, inequality and human rights. Second, the … capital. Third, the causal structure has deepened to focus on flows of individuals into and out of poverty, rather than on …