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Purpose – Government policy can alleviate inequities in living standards. Disabled people often qualify for government assistance which is one way that their living standard can improve, although arbitrary systems for distributing assistance are not likely to serve equity objectives. The...
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-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 …
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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 …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not government health care spending reduces the poor-rich differences in health status. Specifically, it aims to assess the health status of the poor vis-à-vis government health spending in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach –...
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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 …
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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 …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight that child labour is complementary to adult labour in the brick kiln industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a case study of bonded labourers in the brick kiln industry of Southeast India. Findings – The paper finds...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of food security and human development inter-relationships for a sample of low-income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical procedure involves the estimation of a reduced form equation utilising...
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Purpose – This paper's purpose is to examine the nature and correlates of poverty in Ghana. Design …/methodology/approach – Using the most recently published household living standards survey; the paper computes poverty indicators using the Foster … et al., and Theil's inequality indicators to examine the nature of poverty. It also does a qualitative analysis on the …
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poverty of SSA has many dimensions and causes, both internal and external. Certainly part of its underdevelopment is … is that the principal therapy for poverty in SSA comes from within by addressing the internal obstacles to growth …
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