Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong and why aid had so often been ineffective, even counter … development will fail. More than 25 years after it was published, many of the issues discussed in the Poverty of Nations remain …

Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly …

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

This study examines foreign aid effectiveness in poverty reduction in Africa with focus on the role of regional fiscal … (health) reduces poverty head- count in the West and Central (in all regions except Central) regions of Africa. The study … significantly improves the income level in all the regions except Central Africa, and consumption in the Western and Central regions …

improves the wellbeing of the poorest groups, it is the richer groups that benefit the most.foreign aid, poverty, well …

Two important shortcomings of the official measure of poverty are its failure to account for noncash benefits … geographic areas when setting poverty thresholds. Alternative estimates of poverty rates that account for the variation in the … resources have been produced. One purpose of this chapter is to better account for these factors in poverty measurement using a …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

To examine poverty on China's campuses, we utilize the Chinese College Students Survey carried out in 2010. With … poverty line defined as the college-specific expenditures a student needs to maintain the basic living standard on campus, we … find that 22 percent of college students in China are living in poverty. Poverty is more severe among students from the …

, and other business activities. However, it does not matter that energy poverty is connected to the electrical grid, and … social wellbeing. This study investigates the incidence of energy poverty in China’s foreign aid countries. Our paper uses … investigate the impact of energy poverty on energy consumption, education, and the per capita income of households. The selected …