Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the contribution of financial development to poverty reduction in 11 … Pedroni co-integration test confirm a long-run relationship between financial development and poverty reduction in South Asian …, trade openness, inflation and poverty reduction. Results of panel causality test indicate that there is a unidirectional …

purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between infrastructure development and poverty reduction for India using … represents infrastructure development. The authors provide evidence on the link between infrastructure development and poverty … that infrastructure development and economic growth reduce poverty in both long run and short run. The causality test …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial sector development and poverty … sector development lead to poverty reduction? Design/methodology/approach – Stationarity properties of the series are checked … financial development and poverty reduction for India. The ARDL test results suggest that financial development and economic …

-economic systems, and political structures. The challenges in achieving food security are to reduce poverty, increase food security … break the cycle of poverty. Originality/value – The paper presents comprehensive research work in the field of global food …

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to construct a poverty profile for Sri Lanka, and examine the micro …-level determinants and correlates of poverty. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the latest Sri Lanka Integrated Survey … commissioned by the World Bank. The unconditional poverty profile was constructed using three different poverty measures (poverty …

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the current poverty situation and poverty alleviation efforts of the NGOs in … that the majority of the NGO beneficiaries remained below the poverty line in terms of income and the overwhelming majority … employment opportunity. The qualitative data on the perception of beneficiaries on the causes of poverty endorse this finding …

Purpose – To review the literature on the relationship between growth, globalization, and poverty, and present … poverty. Design/methodology/approach – Notwithstanding data and methodological problems cited in the literature, this paper … makes an effort to quantitatively examine the issue of statistical correlation between growth and poverty variables, through …