years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …

quality health care in India. This paper looks at the implementation of the scheme in Karnataka, drawing on a large survey of …The National Health Insurance Scheme (Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, RSBY) aims to improve poor people’s access to …

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the … policies, therehave been few attempts to examine nutrition in less-developed countriesthrough an economic history lens.[...] …

Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the politicalagenda. The key new issue addressed in this … research is the relativeimportance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlatesof outcomes later in life. How far … poverty? If there are powerful associations of both childhoodpoverty and early parenthood with later adult outcomes, there are …

capability-based indicators –reflecting the health and education of the population and theextent to which the social sectors are … limited to standardeconomic measures of poverty based on incomes or expenditures,but also include trends in selected … thepopulation is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen,joblessness has increased, school enrolment has dropped andgeneral …

Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census … neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …

[...]This paper begins by discussing poverty trends on a global scale -- where the poor are located in the world and … distribution to poverty reduction. Finally, it suggests an evidence-based agenda for poverty reduction in the developing world.[...] …