This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of …

Reducing poverty and improving the living standards of the poor and vulnerable populations in Sri Lanka have been one … of the country's key goals. The government has designed poverty-targeting programs with relevant government agencies … criteria have to be redesigned to effectively target poverty. This article explores the Multidimensional Deprivation Score Test …

Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … their degree of coverage and adequacy, their poverty-alleviating effects and their overall cost. Finally, we explore the …

The new Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800 provides neither a "history" nor a coherent concept of "poverty" and …, based on the idea that the interplay of "labour" and "poverty" (epitomized in the notion of the "labouring poor") forms the … crucial key to the understanding of the decisive long-term theme in the history of poverty and poor relief in Europe from 1350 …

inequality and at-risk-of-poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for the differences between these and their …

Indonesia has lowered the total poverty rate by less than 10%. Earlier poverty measurements in Indonesia suggest that … transient poverty is more prevalent. We argue that, when employing the Equally Distributed Equivalent (EDE) approach and … disaggregated poverty lines, chronic poverty is more prevalent than transient poverty. We estimated chronic and transient poverty in …

Zambia is one of the countries with the highest levels of poverty and inequality with approximately 60.5% of the … population living below the poverty line. Rural areas are more affected, with 82% living in poverty compared to 18% in urban … areas. To combat this, Zambia's Vision 2030 aims to reduce the national poverty rate to below 20% and the government has …

nearly 0.7 percentage point reduction in poverty nationally and 3.4- 4.1 percentage reductions in the regions. These results … with geographic targeting in high-poverty districts. The results also show the relevance and effectiveness of PMT as a …

The development of non-contributory pension program as institutions for poverty and inequality reduction in Brazil …