be suspended during the crisis. Beefing up the government's payments through the livelihood empowerment against poverty … can serve as a critical puzzle piece of the country's current challenges. The project will support poverty alleviation …

Cash transfer programs may generate significant general equilibrium effects that can detract from the anti-poverty …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? How many poor people have been prevented from lifting themselves out of poverty? How many … escaping extreme poverty. The report advocates using agricultural policy to orchestrate a supply response; deploying social … surveys indicate that the share of people living in extreme poverty in 2010 was half what it was in 1990. The world has also …

consumption poverty. The analysis finds that poor households in Uganda tend to be net buyers of food staples, and therefore suffer … foods. The paper estimates that both the incidence and depth of poverty have increased - at least in the short run - as a … result of higher food prices in 2008, increasing by 2.6 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively. The increase in poverty is …

the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …