The objective of this article is to propose a reappraisal of the phenomenon of poverty in Soviet Union by integrating … it proposes a broader framework to evaluate wellbeing and poverty. The idea developed is that freedom of choice is an …

this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and … welfare increases in the short run. The average poverty gap and the squared poverty gap also follow the same pattern as …

Herein a characterization of the evolution of extreme poverty and income inequality in Bahia is presented. Extreme … poverty and income inequality in Bahia fell twice from 1995 to 2009, in roughly the same periods, but at different pace. The … first fall begins in 1996. For extreme poverty, it was a sudden fall ending in 1997, whilst inequality kept falling till …

in 2009), the poor (between R$ 67 and R$ 134), the vulnerable to poverty (between R$ 134 and R$ 465) and the non … also present a classification of types of family most likely to be found in extreme poverty. Our first conclusion is that … distribution of poverty has not changed much between 2004 and 2009. Our second conclusion is that the most important changes in …

The present research aims to contribute to the area of poverty studies by appraising the potentiality of traditional … research methods and the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) as proper instruments for analyzing poverty situations according to … a "relational" perspective. The theoretical concepts of poverty have gradually developed towards the idea that it is a …

faisant face à un risque d'entrée dans la pauvreté. Poverty in Russia is mainly a transitory phenomenon which means that there … are a lot of transitions in and out of poverty. As a consequence, the analysis of poverty dynamics requires to evaluate … the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to study poverty transitions in Russia between 1994 and 2000, using duration …

limited impact on households income and are unable to reduce poverty, because of a failing targeting. (Full text in french) …

, inequality limited and poverty non-officially recognized, made it possible each citizen to reach a socially acceptable standard … article aims at evaluating the performances of public transfers in terms of poverty reduction. In the first time, this … capacity of transfers to target poor households and to resorb poverty gaps. In the second time, we propose a dynamic analysis …

dynamics of poverty in Russia between 1994 and 2000. In the first place, the use of classical tools of poverty dynamics … analysis – FGT indices, stochastic dominance, etc. – reveals that poverty evolutions are parallel to macroeconomic fluctuations …. The poverty headcount index reaches a maximum of 27,5 % in 1998, just after the financial crisis. In the second place, the …

The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short …-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur … estimation techniques which control cases of right- and left-censoring. The most important results are: how longer the poverty …