This paper presents a discussion on some poverty alleviation programs that are specifically targeted to the poor. The … component of the post-crisis Social Safety Net package. Brief assessments of the programs show that the targeting of poverty … paper concludes that the effectiveness of various poverty-targeted program in Indonesia are determined by, among other …

To estimate the poverty rate at the commune level, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs firstly collects … information on households’ income per capita, and compares their income with a defined poverty line. A household is identified as … a poor one if their income per capita is below the poverty line. Then, the poverty rate of a commune is simply the ratio …

project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How … effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces poverty turns fundamentally on the degree to which MGNREGS targets its …

This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …

rural Zambia. It finds that individuals pursue poverty motives but act selfishly if not restrained. Egalitarianism and …

(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …