Working Poverty and Its Dimensions

Poverty: Dimensions and Prospects

Poverty reduction, as an overarching objective of development, has recently been adopted as an international development goal (IDG). Using the proportion of people living on less than one dollar a day per person as the measure of poverty, the international community identified the reduction of poverty by half by the year 2015 as an international development goal. The one-dollar a day per person...

Impact of Poverty Dimensions on Chronic And Transient Poverty in Iran

The topic of poverty has always been studied in the world. If we can break down poverty, we will have a better understanding of the changes in poverty .The purpose of this article is to show the status of poverty and its three dimensions in chronic and transient poverty in Iran using the raw data of the Iranian Statistical Center and drawing the three dimensional curve of poverty (TIP) using th...

OPHI WORKING Measuring Chronic Poverty

A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require resources in different periods to be perfect substitutes when identifying the chronically poor. We use a general mean to combine the res that is then compared to a poverty line to determine when a person is chronically poor. The parameter 1 β ≤ of the general mean allows for v...

Poverty and its measurement

Labour market dimensions of poverty in

Labour market dimensions of poverty in Indonesia have not so far been the subject of detailed analysis, although sufficient reliable data is available to provide the basis for such research. This topic is of particular interest now, partly because jobs have grown very slowly and unemployment has risen in Indonesia since the 1997-98 financial crisis. The question arises as to whether the lack of...