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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...

Materias / palabras clave: Damián, Araceli; Reseñas; Pobreza; México; Empleo; Poverty; Mexico

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...

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...

Poverty has been defined by several authors and international organizations from similar perspectives. However, those definitions tend to be simplistic and not powerful enough to deal with complex situations that involve...

O artigo apresenta resultados de pesquisa empírica que buscou verificar o impacto da pobreza sobre o Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica em escolas de ensino fundamental em mais de 5.500 municípios brasile...

Chile is an interesting country in which to study the relationship between poverty and subjective wellbeing, having experienced a remarkable fall in poverty over the past two decades. This paper explores how poverty stat...

This article examines whether and how sacramental liturgy and the Christian life-ethic are intrinsically related, a fundamental problematic in theory and practice in the decades since Vatican Council II. The first half o...

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of a housing transition on sleep quality and quality of life in slum dwellers, participating in a slum housing upgrading program. DESIGN: Observational before-and-after study with...

Abstract Background Socio-economic status is a known predictor of childhood obesity. Improvements to school meals have been promoted as a method of combating rising childhood obesity rates, especially in low-income popul...

Zakat plays a strategic role in Islamic social finance as an instrument for poverty alleviation and social welfare; however, its contemporary distribution practices often remain concentrated on short-term charitable reli...

Understanding household livelihoods is essential for poverty reduction. A major obstacle in analyzing livelihood quality lies in the quantitative investigation of household livelihood assets, livelihood strategies, and t...

Abstract Background High‐income countries offer social assistance (welfare) programs to help alleviate poverty for people with little or no income. These programs have become increasingly conditional and stringent in r...

Abstract Based on the stress process model, this study explores the impact of time poverty on sleep quality among Chinese adults, as well as its physiological and psychological mechanisms. Data from the “Online Survey ...

“We have our own Development Vision”: Poverty and Prosperity in Andhra PradeshOliver MaxwellA three way dispute between environmental campaigner George Monbiot, the Minister for International Development, Clare Short, ...

This paper takes advantage of a new source of information-the Gallup World Poll 2006-to estimate and characterize income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compar...

This paper presents empirical results ofa wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 1992-2006. Sixdimensions are analysed:income, child...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the deprivation costs of the 2001- 2002 Argentinean crisis. The selected approach is multidimensional and focuses on four aspects of quality of life: labor, assets, education and...

Este trabajo provee evidencia sobre crecimiento y pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe (LAC). Los resultados se obtienen de microdatos provenientes de encuestas de hogares para 18 países en la región desde los 1990s ...

This paper examines the impact of access to international agro-manufacture markets on poverty in Argentina. Measures of international market access, such as cuts in tari s and abolition of non-tari measures, can be appro...

Este trabajo evalúa la probabilidad de alcanzar el Objetivo del Desarrollo del Milenio de pobreza en Argentina, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay. Simulamos el cambio esperado en la pobreza de distintas tasas de crecimientos y ...

Poverty still is one of the central problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. As measured by international poverty lines, approximately one out of every five people in the region is poor. Consequently, the elimination...