Recent studies suggest that current approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. This book … brings together a discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, and case studies to …

markets with the quest for a more humane world--and he tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today …. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of … drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, where …

Kleinstkrediten, vorrangig an Dorfbewohnerinnen, wirksam Armut bekämpfen, nachzulesen in M. Yunus: "Für eine Welt ohne Armut" (hier … Produkte und Dienstleistungen anbieten - jedoch immer im Hinblick auf die Verringerung der Armut und ohne eigene … Profitinteressen. Dahinter steht die optimistische Vision, die Armut besiegen zu können und auch die Globalisierung zum Wohle der …

boxes -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Part I. Jobs and earnings of the poor -- 1. Poverty and the world of work: A …This report shows that decent work is vital to reducing poverty. Poverty has tended to decline in many emerging and … poverty. The report examines the role that policy can play, particularly with economic policies, employment programmes …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

The Sitio Electrification Program (SEP) and the Household Electrification Program (HEP) are two ongoing rural …. Using an econometric regression for studying the poverty reduction impacts of rural electrification in the Philippines, we … also find evidence of a positive relationship between rural electrification and poverty reduction. However, in order to …

investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption … when household consumption expenditure is used as a poverty reduction proxy, while in the long run an insignificant …This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from …