Documenting fuel poverty from the householders’ perspective

Fuel Poverty: Evidence from Housing Perspective

The literature has traditionally approached fuel poverty as a result of poverty. Fuel poor are those households who cannot pay fuel bill and have to live in cold ambient, with grave effects on their health. As fuel poverty is actually considered in poverty’s analysis, there is little discussion about whether homeowners (who own housing wealth and, theoretically, cannot be poor) could suffer thi...

Understanding fuel expenditure: Fuel poverty and spending on fuel

A Reuse Case Perspective on Documenting Frameworks

A framework is developed in order to support the development of a family of applications. Many approaches to documenting frameworks have been tried, though with different aims and audiences in mind. Of greatest utility are those aimed at reducing the learning curve for application

From Correlates and Characteristics to Causes: Thinking About Poverty from a Chronic Poverty Perspective

— Poverty and poverty reduction are currently the central concerns of development discourse and policy. Despite recent theoretical advances, poverty analysis continues to be dominated by an income/consumption conception of poverty. We argue for understandings of poverty that go beyond measurement-led conceptualizations to more adequately expose the causes of poverty. Chronic Poverty is one such...

the perspective of poverty in the globalization age

millions of people in underdeveloped countries, have assumed poverty as a principal of life in globalization age. in comparison with advanced countries, asian, african and latin american countries are characterized as poor societies. lack of equally access to economic and social opportunities, low level of life, economic stagnation, political instability, and such factors are taken into account...