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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 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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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 …
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Purpose – The role of household socio-economic factors towards achieving enduring poverty interventions especially … levers to improve welfare of the poor. The purpose of this paper is to examine poverty situations among urban households in … Ekiti State, Nigeria with emphasis on household socioeconomic characteristics and their associated influence on poverty …
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. Higher levels of population under the poverty line, higher levels of the Gini Index, and being an African country lead to …
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Outlines the background and aims of the Millennium Development Goals. Presents a brief introduction to the articles in this special issue.
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). Findings – Besides other variables it has been observed that poverty remains an important determinant of female labor …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of savings and loan groups (SGs), alone and combined with a rotating labor scheme ( Ajuda Mútua ), on the economic conditions of the rural poor in Nampula province in Mozambique. Design/methodology/approach Three pairs of districts were...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present deprivation in urban Brazil in a multidimensional perspective with dimensions related to household’s objective information, assets in the household, subjective evaluation concerning the dwelling and expenses. Design/methodology/approach –...
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, income, assets and a much lower level of poverty than those without nonfarm participation. The intensity of nonfarm … implications – The findings suggest that any poverty alleviation policies should aim at improving the access of ethnic minorities …
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