and 2000 household surveys. It also tests whether or not there is a widespread feminization of poverty. To achieve these …The paper investigates the association between gender and poverty in Tunisia based upon an empirical analysis of 1990 … goals, the paper suggests a theoretically sound method to compute expenditure-based incidence of poverty and tests for …

result, poverty has increased. The global financial crisis has left lasting effects on the structure of financial markets …

<p>Being in a state of material poverty can be a persistent or an episodic experience that can be life …. The contribution of existential humanism to the poverty discourse is, essentially, the proposition that everyone needs the …

poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither …

. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using cross-sectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential …

the cycle of poverty. …

reducing poverty. In many countries, microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become popular instruments for redistributive pro … trend towards product diversification can be an appropriate policy response for enhanced poverty outreach, in particular …. Still, the contribution of CMF on the depth of poverty outreach is less evident, both viewed from an income-related and …

during the recession. However, Texas continues to rank below other states in many of the measures, including median household … income, poverty rate, and health insurance coverage. …

In this paper we use an individual- and household-level panel data set to study the impact of changes in legal minimum … out of poverty. We find that changes in the legal minimum wage affect only those workers whose initial wage (before the … household income finds: a) increases in legal minimum wages increase the probability that a poor worker’s family will move out …

for describing social disadvantage in contemporary Sweden – poverty, social exclusion and the concept “utanförskap”. The …