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. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

HIV/AIDS is both a cause and a symptom of chronic poverty and requires new and innovative policy instruments and … – for tackling chronic poverty among people living with HIV/AIDS …

Primary education is widely perceived to have a key role in reducing poverty and is positively associated with … to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, this review argues that the processes by which … education influences poverty are insufficiently understood, particularly with respect to intergenerational poverty transmission …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

emergence from poverty depend on individual household characteristics of economic participation and asset holding. To fully … incidence of Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization …, but the northwestern area of Vietnam is likely to lag behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under …

services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural …, whenever possible, provides evidence of the effects of these determinants on competitiveness, growth, and poverty in Latin … (growth), micro (productivity at the firm level), and poverty (the earnings of poor/rural people). In addition, the paper …

largely accounted for by the technology trap responsible for the poverty trap. This result is supported by empirical evidence …