This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with … disastrous results.In recent years, poverty has generally been understood in ‘relative' terms. That is, people are regarded as … poor if they earn less than some benchmark relative to average earnings. One perverse result of such relative poverty …

that schooling. The theory developed here explains the forsaken schooling phenomenon, which shows that low-skilled and …

poverty in the EU over the period 1994–2008. We pay particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic environment, social … transfers that do not include pensions, exert a prominent impact on inequality and poverty. Also significant is the effect of … the GDP per capita. The impact of employment on inequality and poverty is not empirically sound. The same holds for the …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …

constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

improves the wellbeing of the poorest groups, it is the richer groups that benefit the most.foreign aid, poverty, well …

constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

is the emergence of energy poverty, a condition where households are living in inadequately heated homes. This paper … examines the institutional and demographic underpinnings of energy poverty in Macedonia and the Czech Republic, two post … 'hidden' geography of poverty encapsulates the character of domestic energy deprivation among these populations. Energy …