the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and … the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond the traditional literature on poverty, this original book deals … from conventional methods employed in poverty studies, these innovative essays enquire into the institutional …

conditions for everyone. The endurance of poverty, however, has motivated to extend the traditional "growth is good for the poor … stage with the propagation of the Millennium Development Goals, including its goal to halve poverty by 2015. -- This volume …

Wirtschaftswachstum und Armutsreduktion diskutiert. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Darstellung von Public Private Partnerships …. Keine Fallstudie liefert einen direkten langfristigen Beitrag zur Armutsreduktion, aber sie tragen zum Wirtschaftswachstum …

This paper contributes to providing insights into the impact of decentralisation on poverty. It starts out with an … overview of which role decentralisation plays in strategies and policies for poverty eradication and derives economic and …. It shows that decentralisation cannot only influence poverty by assigning expenditure responsibility to lower levels of …

translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty …

the contributions to this volume. First, the linkages between growth, inequality, and poverty in Latin America need …, measuring and addressing poverty remains a critical research area, in particular non-monetary including subjective indicators of … well-being often tell a different story that needs to be considered when analyzing poverty trends and determinants. Lastly …

's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …