health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … of growth and aims to expose the obstacles households face to improve their economic situation. The main focus of the …

The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of … which to draw when under such pressures. Households with a newborn child face two additional constraints: the income …-generating capability of mothers can be moderately or severely reduced; and households may have to spend more because of the newborn child …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

we then combine to arrive at estimates of overall poverty from 1970 to 2000. However, data for the last few years of this … that these estimates are worst case estimates of poverty trends after 1995. An alternative, less pessimistic estimate is … to arrive at overall estimates of inequality and poverty; next we discuss the trends in poverty as derived from our data …

The negative impact of poverty on development and security in South Africa has been exacerbated by high food prices …, poverty alleviation is compatible with running a profitable organisation. …

notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … traditionally believed that tuberculosis transmission takes place mainly in households after close contact with an infectious person … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …

impacts of energy efficiency increases over a sample population of consumers to quantify the proportion of households having …