Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. There is no evidence of adaptation within a … poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. Third, poverty scars: those who have been …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

epidemiology tools with the literature on poverty traps. A theoretical model of rational protective behaviour in response to … epidemiology and poverty are solved.ResultsTwo important conclusions emerge from the model. First, agents increase their protective …". Second, a 'malaria trap' defined as the result of malaria reinforcing poverty while poverty reduces the ability to deal with …

In this paper, we study the links between time use, informal labor market, and poverty measures in two countries that … strongly differ on their level of development, by means of a multidimensional poverty index, and a bivariate probit model to …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …