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 …

widespread problems, which have been shown to drive and maintain poverty and which are also clearly associated with … the focus of this study because they are generally weakly addressed by the development and poverty policies of both donors … they necessarily have the strongest causal link with chronic poverty, marginality or vulnerability, but rather because they …