Issues relating to urban poverty are attaining primacy in social science research today due to the increasing expansion …

productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a …. On a comparable basis, the reduction in poverty over this period is shown to be substantially smaller than indicated by …, the pace of poverty reduction between 2000 and 2005 shows, at best, a marginal acceleration (or a marginal deceleration …

Purpose – The objective of the paper is to examine the profile and determinants of urban poverty in the two largest … cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. The paper also investigates the dynamic aspect of urban poverty in Vietnam. Design …/methodology/approach – The authors use regression and data from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey to examine the determinants of poverty in Vietnam …

<p>This paper seeks to understand temporal changes in poverty and well-being in Indian cities during the era of …

It is usually admitted that poverty in Africa is mainly rural. This opinion is confirmed by the analysis made on the … basis of the incidence of poverty. Two methodological choices influences this result : firstly the use of a single poverty … line for the whole country, secondly the focusing on the sole incidence of poverty. The use of different poverty lines for …

This paper analyzes the roles of agriculture in reducing poverty. Following the methodology proposed by López (2002 …), three channels by which agricultural growth reduces poverty are tested: (i) its effects on the real wage of unskilled … expansion is dramatic. Agricultural growth tends to improve all measures of poverty significantly with head count falling around …

and sectorial housing markets, the age-appropriate conversion of residential houses, residency and poverty and residency …