society, and to build a composite indicator of poverty (CIP) based on their preferences to act as a national benchmark for … poverty alleviation. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was administered shortly before the eruption of the … Egyptian Revolution. A series of regression models were run to uncover what Egyptians perceive to be the causes of poverty …

society, and to build a composite indicator of poverty (CIP) based on their preferences to act as a national benchmark for … poverty alleviation. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was administered shortly before the eruption of the … Egyptian Revolution. A series of regression models were run to uncover what Egyptians perceive to be the causes of poverty …

inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare … implication of the empirical findings suggests that Fiji is unlikely to achieve its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty …

poverty. It also finds adverse public health impacts in terms of rise in malnutrition and hunger, suicide rates, domestic …

poverty. It also finds adverse public health impacts in terms of rise in malnutrition and hunger, suicide rates, domestic …

Purpose – Child poverty has become an important issue in social and political agendas. In Portugal, almost 25 per cent … of children are at risk of poverty and the most vulnerable age group. This paper seeks to investigate child poverty in … sociodemographic and economic attributes associated with child poverty in order to design the profile of income-poor children …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to raise concern and discussion about poverty. This paper explores the … difficulties of defining poverty and its origins. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes research from psychological and … sociological literature to analyze differing schools of thought regarding poverty. A macro-level perspective of poverty is defined …

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

Purpose – Child poverty has become an important issue in social and political agendas. In Portugal, almost 25 per cent … of children are at risk of poverty and the most vulnerable age group. This paper seeks to investigate child poverty in … sociodemographic and economic attributes associated with child poverty in order to design the profile of income‐poor children …