locational disadvantage of the rural people. The paper follows the framework of Sen’s Capability Approach to development. …

A little over one million individuals in Australia between the ages of 24 and 64 years are in Freedom poverty – they … the most disadvantaged in society due to their multiple capability restrictions. Current political rhetoric focused on … lives of these most disadvantaged individuals. Indeed, of those in Freedom poverty, 80% are not in employment. But these …

Poverty reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the World Bank. But, when the … World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty—what should it be dreaming? I argue in this essay that the dream should be a … eliminating poverty will mean for human well-being. I propose a new standard for global income poverty for the World Bank’s use …

result of increasing poverty trends providing a detailed analysis of regional welfare policies. Among the different results … across regions in terms of unemployment and poverty. The dramatic growth in the number of recipients of regional welfare …This paper aims at reviewing some of the main changes in poverty and other measures of economic vulnerability in Spain …

evaluation of the welfare of the least advantaged members of society, but a statistical procedure for testing deprivation …

This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and … the rural population. The poverty-reducing impacts are found to be positive for all three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

The debate about the consequences of economic growth on poverty and welfare was recently rekindled in South Africa by … linked to a nationally representative household survey to assess the poverty and economic consequences of a higher economic … growth scenario. The main findings are that higher economic growth induces reductions in poverty both in the short and long …