The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in … from individual, income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, we illustrate this framework with an application to poverty … rates among young women in the United States. We use this model to analyse differences in poverty experiences, particularly …

, especially refugee immigrants, and for households with children. Further, poverty rates declined, both for natives and for …This Paper analyses the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards determined …

female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with … resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty …

This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …

percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and … after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about these striking results, especially with the rediscovery of poverty in … the 1960s. In this paper we re-examine the surviving records from the 1950 survey, making the poverty line more consistent …

of incomes of future generations. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. From a policy point of view, we analyse poverty … was expensive but that it provided effective - albeit not efficient - poverty relief. From a methodological point of view …, we demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures …

supply, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. …

The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …