All opinions expressed here are those of the author and not those of the Economics Education and Research Consortium. Research dissemination by the EERC may include views on policy, but the EERC itself takes no institutional policy positions The problem of poverty and inequality measurement in contemporary Russian society is considered within the framework of the general problem of social tensi...

We combine two of the most widely used measures in the inequality and poverty literature, the concentration index and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke metric to the analysis of socioeconomic inequality in obesity. This enables us to describe socioeconomic inequality not only in obesity status but also in its depth and severity. We apply our method to 1971-2012 US data and show that while the socioeconomi...

The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in Nigeria between 1980 and 1996. Data analyzed were obtained from four national consumer expenditure surveys conducted in Nigeria in 1980, 1985, 1992 and 1996 by the Federal Office of Statistics. Adjustments were made for price differentials over time and across regions of the country. However, o...

Abstract Issues relating to food availability, accessibility/affordability, and utilization remain paramount among different stakeholders such as policymakers academics. Using data from 250 maize farming households in Nigeria, the study used Foster–Greer–Thorbecke probit regression model investigate factors determining security. The insecurity measure shows that 23.2% points of express incidenc...

This study examines the effect of government health care and education programs on the poor in Chile from 2000 to 2006. Results are obtained from a country-wide provincial level panel data-set with information on poverty and indigence head-count ratios, measures on the severity of poverty as captured by the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke P2 statistic, per capita public expenditures on health and educat...

Most food insecurity research within the United States has focused on the headcount ratio of food insecurity, whic is, the percentage of households that are considered food insecure. Although this measure is important, using this measure alone, ignores the variation within the food hardship being experienced by U.S. households. In 2008, Dr. Craig Gundersen translated the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke ...

Fuel poverty is a growing concern in France. Following the hike in energy prices that started in 2004, the problem of energy affordability for low-income households entered the political debate with the “Grenelle de l’environnement” in 2007. According to the standard UK definition (10% ratio) 3.4 million households were subject to fuel poverty in France in 2006. We question the way fuel poverty...

The study evaluated the socio-economic characteristics, income inequality and poverty status of female headed cassava farming households in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. Primary data were used for study. A multi-stage sampling technique was to select a total sample size three hundred (303) from two area councils. analyze using descriptive statistics, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) index, Gi...

this paper examines the relationship between growth and poverty in iran during the first five-year plan. in other words, effort has been made to show whether economic growth in iran helped poor people or not. for this purpose the concept of pro poor growth has been analyzed with application to the economy of iran, both in urban and rural areas and in the country as a whole. we use an indicator ...

Abia state faces severe soil erosion problem which affects agricultural production and poverty of crop farmers. The use vetiver grass strips technology (Vgt) helps control erosion, enhance yield, increase farmers’ income reduce poverty. However, there is a dearth information on the effect adoption Vgt. in State. Therefore, status adopters State was investigated. 250 farming households were rand...