is still grappling to overcome interrelated challenges of poverty and sustainable development, so its priorities will be …" framework stresses the distinct challenges of achieving zero extreme poverty (Z), setting country-specific "Epsilon" benchmarks …

Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …

member economy's efficiency changes in health and education spending. We next turn to review service provision inequality …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … home country real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth. A 10% increase in remittances as a share of GDP leads to … a 0.9-1.2% increase in GDP growth. The findings also show that remittances only have a negligible effect on the overall …

role in facilitating economic growth and poverty reduction, and these arguments are supported by overwhelming empirical … critically important for poverty reduction, it is also widely believed that microfinance and SME credit programs need to be well … better to reduce poverty. …

housing sector may support poverty reduction and inclusive growth in two general ways. First, housing construction contributes … to economic growth) and is also helped by financial sector development. …

"Poverty and income inequality remain a stubborn challenge in Asia and the Pacific despite the region’s rapid economic … between financial inclusion, poverty, and income inequality at the country level will help policymakers design and implement … variables, on poverty and income inequality. Our results show that per capita income, rule of law, and demographic …

inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The …

increase in inequality was statistically significant and reduced the average rate of poverty reduction per year by about 28 …'s Democratic Republic, with the Gini coefficient rising from 0.311 to 0.364, even though absolute poverty incidence has halved. The … increased at their observed levels but inequality had not changed. When the data are decomposed into rural and urban areas of …