countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries … structural malaise that traps them in a vicious circle of poverty. They advocate the radical reshaping of the international …

notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …

how microcredit can provide access to hope. This paper explores the impact of world poverty on the world’s poorest of the …

"Fish and fisheries make a major contribution to nutritional security and the fight against hunger and poverty in Asia …

development policy concentrates on growth through poverty alleviation and the fisheries sector has a key role to play through the … problems of chronically low incomes amongst many of the world's fishermen has received much attention. Poverty alleviation … understanding of the features and factor of this poverty and without such an understanding any policy is unlikely to achieve the …

This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

Poverty and homelessness are a rising problem in the United States. For the individuals and families that have fallen … under such circumstances, it can be very difficult to overcome poverty. This paper shows areas where low-income persons pay …

Hongbin Li, evaluates the impact of the 8-7 Plan, the second wave of China's poverty alleviation program, on rural income …'s pre-program income fell below a given poverty line, a regression discontinuity approach is employed to estimate causal …

we then combine to arrive at estimates of overall poverty from 1970 to 2000. However, data for the last few years of this … that these estimates are worst case estimates of poverty trends after 1995. An alternative, less pessimistic estimate is … to arrive at overall estimates of inequality and poverty; next we discuss the trends in poverty as derived from our data …