Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and … examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique … combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed to help defeat poverty in the most distressed American central …

households into poverty. In this paper we look at the two most significant of those crises that took place in Mexico and … responses to mitigate the impact of poverty and vulnerability in the wake of the current crisis. …

options for poverty alleviation in a given country. …

implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest … important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined significantly more than it declined in …

Ghana has seen notable poverty reduction alongside improvements in school participation since 1991. This paper examines … the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of …

their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents a framework to quantify how much … initial conditions affect poverty reduction, given a level of "effort" (growth). The framework used in the analysis allows for … the growth elasticity of poverty to vary according to changes in the income distribution along the dynamic path of growth …

The paper reviews poverty trends and measurements, poverty reduction in historical perspective, the poverty …-inequality-growth debate, national poverty reduction strategies, criticisms of the agenda and the need for redistribution, international … policies for poverty reduction, and ultimately understanding poverty at a global scale. It belongs to a series of backgrounders …