...Kwabena Brefo Osei; Danny Turkson Purpose The impact of cash transfers on improving the living conditions of children and reducing early-life deprivations and vulnerabilities are crucial to safeguarding equality of opportunities and achieving sustainable, equitable and inclusive growth within...

...Bilqis Ololade Ahmed; Fuadah Johari; Kalsom Abdul Wahab Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the hardcore poor, moderately poor and just poor among zakat recipients in southwest Nigeria. It seeks to explain the criteria and basis used in determining the most deprived among zakat...

... among the elderly most likely to participation in labour force in India. A. Bheemeshwar Reddy can be contacted at: abheemeshwar@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Employment Family Ageing Developing countries Wellbeing Deprivation The increased life...

...Fabio Berti; Antonella D’Agostino; Achille Lemmi; Laura Neri Purpose – Italy has become a migrant receiving country and it has to face with the problem of social inclusion of immigrants. The purpose of this paper is to measure the gap on poverty and deprivation between immigrants and natives...

...John Ele‐Ojo Ataguba; Hyacinth Eme Ichoku; William M. Fonta Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the assessment of poverty/deprivation using different conceptions of this phenomenon including the traditional money‐metric measure and different forms of multidimensional constructs...