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 …

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 …

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

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 …

In theory, poverty reduction is associated with economic growth and equal access to opportunities for all citizens …, regardless of their age, gender and income. Pakistan has reduced its poverty headcount by nearly 66% between 2002–2016, despite … contributed to alleviation of poverty in the country. The paper finds that the shift towards a stable democratic regime has …

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 …

, 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 …

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 …