chapter assesses this factor in terms of household income distribution, the setting of poverty limits, the measurement of … income disparity and the causes and effects of poverty. The situation is monitored in five selected EU countries: the Czech …

This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period … 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence decreased, the poverty gap and severity indexes of households in the Program 135 …

This study examines the poverty of the ethnic minorities in the poorest areas in Vietnam. We find that the ethnic … third of the income gap between the majority and all other ethnic minorities groups. Importantly, it implies that poverty of …

from a 2010 Northern Mountain Baseline Survey (NMBS) of the Second Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project and Vietnam …

welfare regime types, the ‘Liberal’ US, ‘the ‘Corporatist’ Germany and the ‘Social-Democratic’ Netherlands. That paper was … analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation … poverty but performs less well in equalising levels of deprivation. The results also show that the immature Southern welfare …

interweaved with the adoption of OLRT computing in Sweden and the UK (alongside a running comparison of similar developments in … the USA). Low transaction volume and small retail bank networks facilitated the early adoption of OLRT by savings banks in … Europe. In documenting cases of organizational change in Sweden and the UK, we depart from predominant view that considers …

Both Canada and the United States have recently undertaken comprehensive reforms of their tax systems. In the case of … eliminate incentives such as investment tax credits. This article examines the significance for Canada of the corporate tax … that competition between Canada andthe United States is most intense and that real effective corporate tax rates probably …

of sound environmental decision making, Environment Canada and other government agencies have jointly participated in the … emissions of SO2 are still required from the USA, iii) inter-regional trading with the USA can play a major role in reducing …

plants within a region. The emissions inventories (GECOT and AIRS for the USA and RDIS for Canada) were used as the major … variation (differences in marginal costs of removal) across emission regions. Preliminary analysis using Environment Canada … 2010. Future work will investigate interregional trading, especially between the bordering states of the USA and provinces …