نتایج جستجو برای: poverty intensity

تعداد نتایج: 214736  

Journal: Money and Economy 2009
Ahmad Mojtahed, Ali Hassanzadeh,

Different countries have implemented various methods in their poverty elimination programs. Redistribution policies, financing low income groups, subsidizing, enhancing the capabilities of the poor, and… are among the traditional policies for poverty elimination programs. The study of concept of poverty is always one of the most important considerations in Islamic thoughts. Islamic Shariat wit...

حاتمی‌نژاد, حسین, زنگانه, احمد, موحد, علی, ولی‌نوری, سامان, کمانرودی کجوری, موسی,

Urban poverty is one of the main concerns of the 21st century and fighting against it is at the top of the millennium development goals. This paper has been done aiming to identify and analyze spatially areas of urban poverty. It has been done with quantitative method and survey based on secondary analysis in Tehran Metropolis in a way that calculated items were categorized based on four main f...

Journal: :Demography 2010
Jeffrey A Groen Anne E Polivka

This article examines the decision of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to return to their pre-Katrina areas and documents how the composition of the Katrina-affected region changed over time. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we show that an evacuee's age, family income, and the severity of damage in an evacuee's county of origin are important determinants of whether an evacuee returned ...

The effect of equivalence scale on poverty line has been considered as a predetermined parameter in all previous studies about the estimation of poverty lines in Iran. As household’s members can benefit from economies of scale in consumption, the cost of reaching to a given level of welfare does not increase one to one in household scale. So the effect of household scale on poverty line as a pr...

2006
Shankar P. Sharma

Despite politically difficult situation and the presence of armed conflict, Nepal's achievements in many socio-economic indicators, especially between 1996, the year when conflict started in the country and 2004, when the intensity of conflict was at a higher level, have been remarkable. The incidence of poverty fell from 42% to 31% mainly because of rapid increase in remittances income, increa...

2004
Costas Azariadis David de la Croix

We explore the consequences of liberalized credit markets for growth and inequality in a lifecycle economy with physical and human capital accumulation, populated by households of different abilities, and calibrated to match the longrun economic performance of a panel of emerging countries. Relatively modest improvements in extending credit to the ablest households appear to have large economic...

Expended Abstract Introduction: Urban neighborhoods are a symbol of urban poverty and its spread over time, mainly due to over-migrations, economic fluctuations, the rapid growth of urbanization, and the neglect of the housing and shelter needs of low-income groups. The World Commission for the Future of Cities in the 21st Century warned that, as urban superlife grows, urban poverty in souther...

The Poverty measurement and its determinants are the most important factors in poverty alleviation programs. In this paper, we estimate poverty line and its dimensions by using Linear Expenditure System. To that end, we use household level data from the Statistics Center of Iran during the period of 1994-2008. We examine the main determinants of poverty for urban households using a probi...

2011
Gerald D. Jaynes

Interrogates poverty debate (growth versus redistribution) reignited by underperforming poverty reductions during 1980s' social spending austerity compared to 1960s' "War on Poverty." Growth and inequality explain 75% 1959-1999 poverty variation; census measurement changes 17%. Significantly, census measurement changes plus overestimated inflation biased-up 1980s measured poverty (deflated 1960...

2009
Maria L. Cruz

Natural resource degradation in Mexico has taken many forms and levels of intensity. The country's rural areas have been among the most affected by this degradation. In this paper, I examine the causes and the impact of natural resource degradation upon rural communities in northwestern Mexico. I discuss the manner in which rural households and women are coping with these problems and the vario...

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