development, economic growth and of millennium development goals (MDGs) for poverty reduction, education and health development in …

access to health care, poverty and material deprivation, housing and local environment and interpersonal relations …

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 …

, supporting the middle class and reducing the poverty in the countries of the region. Originality/value – To the best of the …

recipients considering the multi-dimensional nature of poverty and modern-day situations. Design/methodology/approach Out of 200 … Foundation in southwest Nigeria, only 150 were completed. Headcount poverty index, poverty gap index, multi-dimensional index on … poverty threshold were adopted for analyzing the data collected. Findings On the basis of the income range of the recipients …

is whether income transfer alone can assist these children to break out of poverty. The results should be interpreted as … a sustainable pathway out of poverty. Social implications Financial inclusion and asset-building social welfare is a … income transfer approach to poverty alleviation by enabling the poor to find a sustainable pathway out of poverty by building …

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 …