BACKGROUND An understanding of the complex relationship between health status and welfare is crucial for critical policy interventions. However, the focus of most policies in developing regions has been on current welfare to the neglect of forward-looking welfare analysis. The absence of adequate research in the area of future poverty or vulnerability to poverty has also contributed to the focu...

nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. this study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in south western, nigeria. a random multistage sampling was employed for the study. ekiti and osun states were randomly selected from the six states in south-western nigeria. this was followed by random selection of two l...

Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty line. This analysis is carried out for Ireland using Household Budget Survey data for 1987 and 1994 including tests for the statistical significance of the results. We find that for a wide range of absolute poverty lines, poverty in Irela...

In a model in which agents di↵er in wages and preferences over labor time–consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with e ciency and robustness properties....

In this paper two aspects of poverty measurement are reviewed. First, some conceptual issues regarding the definition of poverty and its different dimensions are explored. Second, based on this discussion, a three-way classification of poverty measurement methodologies is introduced: income poverty line (a unidimensional, indirect approach); unsatisfied basic needs (a multidimensional, direct a...

This study examines the robustness of poverty measures for Poland in the 1990s to employed methods. At least two definitions or techniques of estimation are applied to each of the following components of poverty measures: (1) household well-being; (2) poverty line; (3) equivalence scales; and (4) poverty index. Furthermore, groups at risk of poverty are selected by means of decomposition of the...

poverty is the most serious threat to natural resources and the environment and most of the poor are rural-based who engage in various agricultural activities. land is a critical asset for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately intensify agriculture which compels the poor to either overuse or misuse this natural resource base to meet basic needs. this study presents empirical relatio...

The goal of the World Bank is ‘a world free of poverty’ but the most widely used poverty measures do not show when poverty might be eliminated. The ‘head-count index’ simply counts the poor, while the ‘poverty gap index’ shows their average shortfall from the poverty line. Neither measure reflects changes in the distribution of incomes amongst the poor, but squaring the poverty gap brings sensi...

OBJECTIVES This study estimates the age-specific and cumulative proportions of American adults who will experience poverty at some point during their elderly years. These life-span proportions represent a substantially different approach to understanding poverty than calculating either yearly cross-sectional rates or poverty spell durations. METHODS Our estimations are derived through a serie...

government, now, more than the fist half of 20th century, have accepted. reducing poverty as an inevitably and necessary object. implementing poverty reduction programs would not he as succesful as, without paying enought attention to the dimentions of poverty. in this way estimating poverty line and percent ofpoor people are of the most favorable measures. also we would he enable to make more ...