Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan … with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in … search of employment contribute to the rising levels of urban poverty in cities such as Jaipur, where the present study is …

catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.†The program and the districts are evaluated over time …

This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …

BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social …

Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons … uncounted. Alternative strategies are needed to fill in inequitable gaps in data. Poverty either in physical terms or in data …

This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and …

This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …

This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that a) the caste system and …