poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … very high levels of time-dependent unconditional immobility for the Region. However, the introduction of socioeconomic and … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education …

As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal … comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact … proposed method proves useful for evaluating the theoretical basis of the standard methods for measuring chronic poverty. …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … across countries (in Europe). First, unfair inequality shows different time trends and country rankings compared to total …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …