Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the … region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the … are distributed geographically within and across countries, (3) how poverty affects specific groups (e.g., women, children …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

Our study contributes to the discussion on the impact of imputed rent on poverty. In this paper, we address the issue … poverty among retirees, who are considered to be an economically vulnerable group. We employ the Luxembourg Income Study … imputed rental income contributes to poverty reduction. This also entails some policy implications in the long run, especially …

asylum in European cities. It focuses on the housing of asylum seekers, its policies, effects, causes, conflicts and … resistance, with the assumption that housing asylum seekers is relevant for the integration process of this group. The … the housing of asylum seekers affect the inclusion process into the urban society, and 2) how do asylum seekers act …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … health effect is enhanced by longer treatment periods and consistent across several robustness checks. Housing conditions …

living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1,347 job applications for … represented by the address of the applicants, signaling both the quality of the neighborhood and the quality of the housing …

-growing cities like Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh). The increasing rural-to-urban migration, housing shortages, and the limited … access to affordable housing, are recognised as some of the key underlying drivers of the same. Within the slum pockets, the … households possess a varying level of livelihood assets which further determine their housing conditions. To establish a precise …