This paper explores a unified framework for the study of changes in poverty over time as measured by the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty indices. First we identify a multiplicative decomposition for the indices of this family as a product of the three components which should be involved in every poverty index: the incidence, the intensity and the inequality in the distribution of the income of t...

This study incorporates household energy needs into Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) based poverty measures to examine in South Africa. Our household-specific line is founded on the application of semiparametric estimation expenditure shares that are used determine a equivalence scale and, thus, specific required consumption level or line. We find headcount extensive, exceeding 50%, as gap and seve...

Since 1997 the development of partnership working across the public sector has been one of the key themes of UK government policy (Balloch and Taylor 2001). One area where partnership working has had a major influence has been in the field of health and social care. Whilst a diverse range of partnership mechanisms have developed between health and social care (Dowling et al 2004), equally diver...

The large number of near-poor relative to poor elderly persons in the United States may be recharacterized as a high-prevalence, low-intensity type of poverty. The present study investigates how this characterization is affected by accounting for assets and non-cash transfers in addition to cash income in resources available for current-year consumption. The Foster, Greer, Thorbecke (FGT) pover...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently issued an extensive Clinical Report: Probiotics and Prebiotics in Pediatrics authored by Dan W. Thomas, MD, Frank R. Greer, MD, and the Committee on Nutrition and the Section on Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. Medscape asked Dr. Thomas, a pediatric gastroenterologist with Children's Hospital Los Angeles, to discuss the implications ...

Thoby-Brisson M, Greer JJ. Anatomical and functional development of the pre-Bötzinger complex in prenatal rodents. J Appl Physiol 104: 1213–1219, 2008; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01061.2007.—Developmental anomalies of central respiratory neural control contribute to newborn mortality and morbidity. Elucidation of the cellular, molecular, trophic, and genetic mechanisms involved in the formation a...