in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

This study examines dynamics in poverty and food insufficiency using newly available longitudinal data from the 1993 … uses these data to characterize the incidence and dynamics of poverty and food problems for the entire U.S. population and … associated with transitions into and out of poverty and food insufficiency, and it analyzes the empirical results in the context …

Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM)—on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …

slow. Forty percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and income inequality has been worsening. This paper … also probes into the trends in poverty and distribution of income and access to food through markets. …

This paper compares historical poverty baskets to modern food security and poverty lines.  Changes in the historical … with historically based estimates of energy requirements.  In addition, it is argued that modern poverty measures could be …

This module illustrates how poverty can be defined in the context of policy impact analysis. After reporting and … discussing the definition of poverty as “the lack of, or the inability to achieve, a socially acceptable standard of living”, it … discusses the mono-dimensional and multi-dimensional approaches to the definition of poverty. Furthermore, the module focuses on …

changes affect food poverty. We illustrate our approach using household survey data from Malawi and Uganda. We find that food … poverty is of particular concern in Malawi and Uganda and we find large variations within countries in food poverty. We find …