Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …

live in abject poverty should be of global concern not only because of the moral imperative but also because of the lost … economic contributions. This paper examines the decline or increase in extreme poverty situation in 34 countries in Sub Sahara … and evaluate the factors that lead to decrease or increase in extreme poverty in selected countries. We find that three of …

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 …

The concept of poverty needs a clear and practical definition. This article examines the basic needs approach as well … choices. Given the differences between these two approaches, they lead to different poverty reduction strategies. Moreover … understanding poverty …

Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole … or no success in reducing poverty, many have had significant achievements. The paper argues that inter … into poverty reduction. Since the 1990s (when poverty data are available) the distinction in terms of poverty reduction can …

The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …