include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …

This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation …. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby … causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne …

the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of … growth on the poor over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, they have showed …

This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …

Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …

two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative policies to counter extreme poverty and inequality. The paper …

The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on … trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty …