This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that agricultural households or …

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 …

formal schooling. This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty …

This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …–05 with minimal attrition. The incidence of poverty increased sharply over this time, as the percentage of households entering … poverty was nearly three times higher than the percentage of households escaping into poverty. Over a quarter of panel …

This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among … unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes. The paper finds that non-contributory pensions have a … measurable and significant impact upon poverty reduction and poverty prevention in the two countries studied …

indicators of the MDGs (monetary poverty, child malnutrition, non-enrolment in primary school, and under-five mortality) for the …

Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic … minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the …

In recognizing that poverty is 'multi-dimensional,' contemporary policy discourses – drawing on scholarship on … significantly on them, coherent theories of and useful policy responses to chronic poverty require attention to three additional …, (b) explain how and why poverty persists as part of broader processes of economic prosperity and social change, (c …