...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...

... Wellbeing Deprivation The increased life expectancy coupled with decline in fertility levels has contributed to an increasing older population in India. The proportion of the elderly (age group 60 years and above) has grown from 6.8 per cent in 1991 to 8 per cent in 2011. The share of the elderly...

...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...