Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the spatial distribution of povert...

BACKGROUND There is a global concern regarding how households could be protected from relatively large healthcare payments which are a major limitation to accessing healthcare. Such payments also endanger the welfare of households with the potential of moving households into extreme impoverishment. This paper examines the impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare payments in Ghana...

BACKGROUND Health expenditure for tuberculosis (TB) care often pushes households into catastrophe and poverty. New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) aims to protect households from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and impoverishment in rural China. This article assesses the effect of NCMS on relieving CHE and impoverishment from TB care in rural China. METHODS Three hundred fourty-seven ...

There is widespread conviction that for growth to be pro-poor it has to result in productive and decent employment, since it is the only sustainable way to reduce poverty. Yet though some analytical work has been done to critically examine the linkage of growth, employment and poverty reduction, empirically little has been done, more specifically in the context of servicebased developing econom...

This paper contributes to a more systematic understanding of the link between government supported social assistance programs and social exclusion which are viewed as a complex social phenomenon. In the paper, social exclusion is defined as at-high-riskof-poverty rate and low work intensity. The primary focus of the paper is on the underlying causal processes and combinations of relevant condit...

objective: poverty alleviation is an essential step to achieve economic development. this is why identification exercise is so crucial. traditionally, different aspects of insecurities have not be taken into poverty measurement. many types of insecurities have adverse impacts on household welfare. identifying vulnerability of household can serve identification of the poor households. methodolog...

Abstract The aim of this study was to understand the dynamics multidimensional poverty and its determinants among mid-aged older adults. We used 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018 data from China Health Retirement Longitudinal Study. utilised basic descriptive statistics, transition matrix, Kaplan–Meier estimates, discrete-time proportional hazards model for analysis. From 2011 2018, incidence people basic...

A study linking the two economic and social phenomena of rural labor force migration energy transition can help analyze underlying causes “Energy Poverty”. However, how off-farm employment affects household low-carbon consumption its potential mechanisms requires further research. Using 1351 sampled households from “Rural Energy, Population Transfer Well-being” survey in 2018 2021 to explore re...

Following Amartya Sen’s pioneering ideas on poverty and inequality measurement, the development economics literature proposes diverse classes of measures as well orderings. Yet in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), headcount ratio is primary statistic for measuring monetary multidimensional poverty. Rigorously analysing trends India between 2005/6 2015/16, we illustrate how not able to obser...