This chapter describes some of the key tasks of parenting and how they relate to children's
well-being. It discusses how aspects of the social and physical environment affect that ways …

Measuring poverty in Africa and understanding its determinants and dynamics have become
increasingly important with the targets set by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and …

The primary objective of this research is to identify key factors that explain the observed wide
variation in patterns of inclusiveness of economic growth-defined here as gross domestic …

This study analyzes uni-and multidimensional poverty and inequalities in rural and small
towns in Ethiopia. Unlike the unidimensional measure, the multidimensional measure of …

Multidimensional poverty in urban cities has become an increasing global concern. Income
poverty, deprivation, social exclusion and subjective poverty have been commonly used as …

This paper presents the Provincial Indices of Multiple Deprivation that were constructed by
the authors at ward level using 2001 Census data for each of South Africa's nine provinces …

Questionnaires exploring the relativist vs absolutist perception of wellbeing are administered
to 3883 students in eight different countries, four low-income countries (Bolivia, Brazil …

The measurement of poverty is important yet problematic and controversial. This study
assesses livelihood asset indicators from the sustainable livelihood approach as a …

Multidimensional poverty in urban cities has received growing attention. In this study, the
Alkire-Foster method was applied to examine multidimensional poverty in Hong Kong using …

This study offers a measure for the financial capacity of a government in overcoming poverty
by transferring money to the poor to bring their income to the poverty line. The method is …