It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

make a valuable contribution to the analysis of poverty and are consulting them directly. This new participatory approach … has resulted in a broader definition of poverty and better-informed public policies that are more responsive to the needs … change the way national strategies to reduce poverty were developed and implemented. Previous strategies had met with little …

motivation of the research is to study the potential of the NFRE to alleviate rural poverty, selection criteria included poverty …

conservation within a framework of sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. …