This article posits the issue of American poverty and governments' inability to significantly alter this adverse social … condition. While data suggests there has been a substantial and measurable improvement in poverty rates over the past four … decades, the fact remains, poverty is an inherent and permanent factor of the American social, economic and political …

insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as … measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its aggregation over various age groups. The trends highlight a … significant reduction in poverty among the elderly and a gradual increase in poverty among children and working age individuals …

, this paper defines the concept of information and communication poverty, introduces the criteria of poverty line location … affect and are affected by the concept of information and communication poverty is discussed. This research study examines … and communication poverty, as well as to identify some of its implications for drafting public policies …

analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

The OECD recently published a lengthy volume examining the causes of rising inequality in most wealthy countries over … the last three decades. This paper examines that study, finding that the OECD misses most of the story of inequality … most of the benefits of rising inequality were concentrated much further up the income ladder. In contrast to the OECD …

Social Security benefits will have the effect of increasing inequality. …

household wealth to household income considerably increases measured inequality and the share of income from wealth in … inequality. However, both measures show about the same rise in inequality over the period. Our results contradict the assertion …