this, a clear template emerges for understanding poverty and alleviating it. …

persistent socioeconomic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. Women-by far the largest group of program beneficiaries … and undermine prevailing structures that produce and reproduce poverty and gender disparities. Because the latter two … some of the most entrenched and resilient causes of poverty and gender inequality. The paper examines survey evidence based …

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. …

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 …

market, together with the increase in the transfers received by households, results in an increase in their income. Poverty …

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 …

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. …

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 …