poverty and downside risk. Using a unique panel data set of over 4000 rural households in both countries, we find that female … households are less vulnerable to poverty and not worse off in terms of vulnerability to perceived downside risk. …

This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of national and external trade reform in Brazil using … zero labor income effect. Additionally, we find that poverty indicators decreased after national trade liberalization (both … poverty and inequality of a 10% increase the broiler world price. In general terms, we find an increase in poverty of two …

Most of the studies which have investigated the link between corruption and poverty may draw conclusions on causality … between corruption and poverty. It uses dynamic panel system GMM estimators, focuses on capability poverty using human poverty … corruption and poverty go together, with bidirectional causality. …

determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … the relative risk of poverty. …

This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine … persons are considered to be poor. Third, it is necessary to outline an aggregation procedure to attain a poverty figure for …

After the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, on the eve of the elaboration of policies designed … to help reach the Europe 2020 target of lifting 20 million people out of poverty, it is important to take stock of the … incomes and of employment, poverty rates have not gone down, but have either stagnated or even increased. In this paper we …

the literature on new risks in post-industrial societies. We then discuss two explanations for disappointing poverty …