Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to examine the actual conditions of the problems of poverty in rural areas in … Inner Mongolia, to clarify the problems involved in the measure to fight poverty through promotion of dairy farming and to … propose policies for future measures to fight poverty. Design/methodology/approach – Both quantitative and qualitative …

of average wages. During the period of interest, the rates of poverty and extreme poverty in the region respectively fell … by 11 and 6 percentage points (p.p.). It is highly pertinent, in this context, to study the dynamics of poverty in the … region and to analyze the flows into and out of poverty that accompanied this significant reduction in poverty. The main …

In this article, we analyze the influence of being disabled on poverty dynamics. We present results adjusting the … modified OECD equivalence scale by the number of adults with severe disabilities in the household and calculate poverty rates … the probability of being poor and separate the effects of being disabled on poverty that are short and long-term. The …

inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare … implication of the empirical findings suggests that Fiji is unlikely to achieve its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty …

This article argues that a shift towards issues of poverty is a welcome antidote to policy-making that had expunged … poverty from the central agenda to focus on stabilization, debt management and static allocative efficiency. Unfortunately, in … causes of poverty and narrows the development agenda. Development was aimed at more than poverty and, significantly in …

poverty. It also finds adverse public health impacts in terms of rise in malnutrition and hunger, suicide rates, domestic …