examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a … household to keep its children out of school and put them to work in the cause of the household’s survival. In exploring the … link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection …

greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the …This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and …

use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four rounds (1993 to 2002) of the Indonesian annual national household …

The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in Nigeria between … indicator of poverty, while the unit of analysis was the household. Two poverty lines were set: a moderate poverty line equal to … two-thirds of mean per capita household expenditure, and a core poverty line equal to one-third of mean per capita …

like for Africa? The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank has set goals to end … extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub … redistribution, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our "best case" scenario of accelerated growth …

national development agenda and poverty reduction strategies. It covers issues related to agriculture, forest and urban lands … poverty. Land reform is the critical policy intervention in the agrarian and urban sector. The implementation of the program …

Nigeria. It starts by describing the income distribution in the Nigerian states contained in the sample. It then analyses the … relationship between income, household food expenditures, and household expenditures on imported rice. it is aimed at assessing how … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …