the title means by "clear thinking." Chapters 2 through 6 are devoted to detailed analyses of five hard issues: poverty … measurement questions (as in the case of poverty), it then elaborates the competing norms invoked by different groups and …

-group relationship than current literatures on the relationship between poverty, religion and violence might predict. However, their …

‘private’ military organizations, financed by states, church-related NGOs and/or organized crime, fight for and against states …

's Democratic Republic, with the Gini coefficient rising from 0.311 to 0.364, even though absolute poverty incidence has halved. The … increase in inequality was statistically significant and reduced the average rate of poverty reduction per year by about 28 …

. Using an econometric regression for studying the poverty reduction impacts of rural electrification in the Philippines, we … also find evidence of a positive relationship between rural electrification and poverty reduction. However, in order to …

Modern bioenergy is a core ingredient of sustainable economic development as it plays an important role in poverty … stimulate modern bioenergy innovation in order to achieve multiple-win outcomes in terms of poverty alleviation, improved health …

goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to …, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and … redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …