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In India, over the years, the progress in women’s nutritional status has been less impressive and remains as a major problem for health policy. The dual burden of nutritional disorder of women in India is posing a serious challenge not only for nutritional policy but also for socio-economic...
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This paper has estimated multidimensional poverty for four provinces of Pakistan using PSLM dataset for years 2005 … followed by Sindh, NWFP and then Punjab. Result shows that the most pervasive level of poverty exists in rural areas of … different provinces. The analysis of contribution of each dimension in multidimensional poverty at different cutoffs showed that …
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This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period … 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence decreased, the poverty gap and severity indexes of households in the Program 135 …
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The article empirically analyses the phenomenon of vulnerability to poverty – meant as an individual’s likelihood of … the incidence of vulnerability to poverty at national and regional level. We find that potential poverty concerns an … out to be a useful tool which should complement the traditional analysis of poverty. …
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said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …
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program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …
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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …
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When ever the Planning Commission of India releases the poverty data, that data is being criticised by experts and … economists. The main criticism is underestimation of poverty especially in rural India by the Planning Commission. This paper … focuses on that criticism and compares the Indian Planning Commission’s 2004-05 rural poverty data with the India’s 2400 kcal …
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The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is …
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