re-establish the importance of Nongovernmental Organizations as integral key players on the arena of social welfare in an … donations and volunteers, and enhanced needs related to poverty and acceptable standards of living. Second, to position NGOs on …

This study provides an ex-ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gains for poorer households than richer …

children may be most at risk. In 2002, only 5 million people received cash welfare under TANF, while more than 30 million … allegations that programs “don’t work,” that programs are riddled with fraud, waste, and abuse, and that poverty alleviation is …

, was to reduce the lack of jobs and to increase welfare. Facing persistently increasing unemployment rates from then on … disputed reform of the German social welfare system. By characterising effects and defects of the German welfare system, we … valuation of labour. To conclude, potential welfare and employment effects under the new sys-tem are discussed. …

The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or … lack of it, in achieving the country's commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the incidence of poverty and hunger …. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that the poverty trend is actually even more alarming than what the official …

earnings failed to pull them and their families out of poverty. Assistance in the form of childcare, transportation, medical …

, limited evidence exists on the welfare impacts in developing countries, where the negative impacts of climate change and … training and its welfare effects on farm households in Northern Ghana using doubly robust estimators. We find that the … intervention had statistically significant positive effects on agricultural productivity and welfare outcomes. The results show the …

barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are … inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional requirements. We propose national poverty lines based on the cost of a … healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios and the poverty gap. According to these poverty lines 2 …