This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has looked mainly at the relationship between aid and...

The aim of the article is to investigate the impact of commercialisation on household poverty in Malawi using the 1997/98 Integrated Household Survey data. The results indicate that overall those household who were more commercialised were better off than those who did not and thus...

The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income-based, consumption-based, or entitlement-based. The variation in the concept of poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when...

Using a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence regarding the role of financial inclusion or financial exclusion in household welfare. We first compute a multidimensional index of financial inclusion, and then we examine the effect...

From the dawn of civilization, might be on the basis of adherence to a particular profession, segregation of the society started giving rise to different caste groups/ communities. Traditional occupations like hunting and gathering, pastoralism, fishing and cultivation usually depends on the...

En el presente artículo, se pasa revista a la evolución y las perspectivas futuras del análisis de la pobreza, con especial énfasis en los estudios llevados a cabo en el caso español. Así, en primer lugar, tras centrar el concepto de pobreza, se presenta el análisis unidimensional basado...

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). It also examines developments in the correlation between the two. Income poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this...

Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and...

Many patients approaching tertiary care hospitals are not able to afford complete cost of treatment owing to poverty. The situation was no different at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India. Thus to obviate such maladies, the idea of Kamadhenu Ati...