Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple …-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty and well-being. Stochastic dominance approaches are used to … contrast uni-dimensional and multidimensional poverty over health and assets. The results show that children with the lowest …

female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural areas …, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty decreased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

This study examines the interactions among poverty, access to modern energy sources and gender in Nigeria. Descriptive … many countries of the world, both incidences of poverty and lack of access to modern energy sources are more pronounced …, that poverty reduces the odds in favor of having access to modern energy sources and while female headship of household …

This paper addresses a key issue in the current debate on economic development: the impact of globalization on poverty …. After having discussed the problems related to the definition and measurement of both poverty and globalization, we perform … a panel analysis which adds to recent literature by explicitly considering relative poverty and by conducting robustness …

This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive and poverty effects of tax and public expenditures … sets of policies together, they are found to mainly reflect fiscal policies in that they are more progressive and poverty …-reducing when we use relative poverty lines, in rural areas, followed by semi-urban and urban areas, respectively. Though we also …

Poverty analytical approaches have recently considered households deprivation in several welfare attributes in what has … been tagged multidimensional poverty. This approach has been well embraced due to acceptability of human development … Demographic and Health Survey data were analyzed using the poverty equivalent growth rate (PEGR) and growth incidence curves (GICs …

The present paper aims to analyze the spatial variations in the incidence of poverty and level of deprivation in India …. The causal relationship between poverty rate (dependent variable) and twenty five selected socio-economic variables … unit of study. The entire research work is based on secondary sources of data. The study reveals that the level of poverty …

Poverty has remained largely unabated in Nigeria despite the efforts made in tackling it. Previous studies on poverty …. This study, therefore, examined the incidence, depth and severity of food poverty in Nigeria and produced a food poverty … profile for the country based on zone-specific food poverty lines. The study used data from National Bureau of Statistics …