Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these … seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in …

This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub … household surveys to derive a household-specific norm as the calorie cutoff point to measure undernutrition, instead of the …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. …

since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic growth. By implication, therefore, it can be inferred that poverty … then reviews volumes of and trends in official development assistance since 1960, highlighting flows to Sub-Saharan Africa …. A downturn in volumes in the 1990s is demonstrated. It asserts that poverty is higher and the MDGs are hard to achieve …

civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …

. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, it is shown that a majority of students spend years of …