nutrition remains a problem in rural areas across Southeast Asia despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results reveal …Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia has not fully translated into reduction in malnutrition. Using a … poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we compare nutritional outcomes of children below five …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …

predictor of higher poverty incidence and poverty severity on average for all countries. Federalism does not predict lower … poverty incidence and severity in developing countries. Thus for a developing economy such as the Philippines, Federalism … appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. …

poverty levels and a widening rural-urban gap. …This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985?99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty … is scrutinized, link by link. The paper then moves on to examine other channels in the globalization-poverty nexus that …