-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 …

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 …

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 …

Purpose – Poverty is indeed a terrible monster confronting humanity today. It is alarming and, indeed, not without … despair to note that 22,000 children under five die every day as a result of poverty. Thus, in a calendar year, more than … better place than when I arrived. If poverty is left unchecked, will we be able to make that statement with a clear and …