inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare …Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing … improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the case of Fiji. Using Fiji's Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002 …

”-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value – It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic … survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the “mobile phone”-inequality …

inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare …Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing … improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the case of Fiji. Using Fiji's Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002 …

-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 …