value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …

people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …

finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role … of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …

a day. Although they are above the average poverty line for developing countries, many people in these new â …€œmiddle classes†may be insecure and at risk of falling into poverty. This paper outlines indicative data on trends relating to … poverty and the non poor by different expenditure groups, and critically reviews the recent literature that contentiously …

Is the extreme poverty line a good measure of food insecurity and nutritional status? It is said that an individual who … is above the extreme poverty line has enough resources to achieve a basic food basket. In Peru, extreme poverty has … in Peru, after controlling by income turn down (in other words, the raise of extreme poverty)? Although this topic has …