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This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in term...

Este trabajo tiene dos principales objetivos. Por un lado, evaluar la confiabilidad de las medidas de pobreza y desigualdad en Chile, así como su robustez a cambios metodológicos. En particular, se evalúa el impacto e...

This is not a book about the poor but about poverty and the political use and abuse of the issue. At the same time, poverty is a consensus issue. No one can be against helping the poor, despite significant ideological di...

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Materie / parole chiave: Ciencias Sociales; Sociología; General

Materie / parole chiave: Ciencias Políticas; Seguridad (Nacional e Internacional)

Materie / parole chiave: Ciencias Políticas; Seguridad (Nacional e Internacional)

Materie / parole chiave: Ciencias Sociales; General

This paper proposes a new Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America. The index combines monetary and non-monetary indicators, updates deprivation cut-offs for certain traditional unsatisfied basic needs indicators...

Child poverty and development are multidimensional phenomena which imply the need to analyze several biological and psychosocial components and processes within complex and changing contexts (Beddington et al., 2008; Bor...

Abstract Background The Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP) programme in Ghana as part of its beneficiary programme, identifies the poor/indigents for exemptions from premium payments in the National Health Ins...

Based on the assumption that increased access to internet services boosts economic growth and improves the well-being of the poor, governments in both developed and emerging regions are heavily investing in internet conn...

The paper applies to the problem of child poverty and social deprivation that scholars consider an obstacle for present and future development of society, as it is expressed in the concept of the social investment state....

The main purpose of the study is to analyse the poverty level changes in the chosen European Union countries in years 2006-2014. The poverty and inequality issue gained a global dimension. Income inequality in most cou...

Contemporary researches on economic inequality and poverty are pointing out that their key causes appear in the field of tax policy, workforce policy, policy of employment and more recently in education and educational q...

Abstract Background Anti-poverty has always been an important issue to be settled. What policies should be selected to help individuals escaping from the poverty trap: by directly offering transfer payments or indirectly...

The question of poverty and justice inside global economic system has received three major types of responses in political theory. The communitarian perspective considers political culture of a society as the main cause ...

This pilot study examines Indigenous conceptualizations of poverty in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia) to lay groundwork for a holistic model of Indigenous poverty that can link with holistic models of Ind...

Incomes of population and poverty are key elements of the EU cohesion policy which aims at reducing disparities between the levels of development of individual regions. The traditionally appropriate study to evaluate the...

This study examines the moderating role of Maqashid Sharia in the relationship between economic growth and poverty in selected OIC countries in Asia. It focuses on three dimensions: education (Hifz al-‘Aql), health (Hi...

Abstract Background Despite the rising burden of diabetes in low- and middle-income countries, conventional economic metrics often fail to capture the multidimensional nature of health deprivation. This study aims to bri...