Despite significant poverty reductions in nonmetropolitan America during the 1990s, Census 2000 reports that hundreds … of counties still possess high poverty rates. They have not only populations that are disproportionately minority, lack … the potential antipoverty benefits of economic development in high-poverty counties, the authors compare their poverty …

This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …

The objective of our study is to identify pattern and causes of households' transitions in and out of poverty using the … long household panel data on rural China in the period 1989-2009. We propose a discrete-time multi-spell duration model …. Duration dependence is generally found to be negative for both poverty exit and re-entry. The household who chose either …

The objective of our study is to identify patterns and causes of households' transitions in and out of poverty using … the long household panel data on rural China in the period 1989-2009. We propose a discrete-time multi-spell duration …. Duration dependence is generally found to be negative for both poverty exit and entry. The household choosing either farming or …

This paper characterizes the nature of poverty from a dynamic life-cycle perspective. Using panel data from the … National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that 40% of young Americans experienced at least one year of poverty, and most … of these experienced one or two years. A significant group, by age 34, had suffered five or more years of poverty out of …

Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and … examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique … combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed to help defeat poverty in the most distressed American central …

Recent studies on the relationship between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that …. Its results suggest that financial deepening could narrow income inequality and reduce poverty, and that stronger property …

In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made … over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen …, and social implications in today's China. Given the well-documented correlation between landlessness and rural poverty …