A social development perspective is used to seek an answer to the question: why is the incidence of absolute poverty so …

This report consists of a collection of essays on extreme poverty. The first part of the report deals with what it … means to live in extreme poverty, how to reach the very poor, through programs, and interventions, and how to make private … poverty, and human rights. …

The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …

This report presents an update of poverty and income distribution statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and …

The quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and analysis have often been treated by … on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either the quantitative or the qualitative …

The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …

Cities and towns are increasingly becoming the primary locus of poverty in many countries. Rural-urban migration and … rapid growth comes an increasing concentration of poverty in urban areas. In parallel, more countries assign local … governments increased responsibility in fighting poverty. With decentralization, the responsibility of local social policy goes …

Government and the private sector have complementary roles in promoting development and in fighting poverty. …

A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. In … practice, there is typically not one monetary poverty line but many, reflecting the fact that poverty lines serve two distinct …