of agricultural expenditure for poverty reduction in poor rural areas, while also pointing to the need for complementary … required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDGs) in Zimbabwe. This method uses growth … poverty and growth expenditure elasticities to estimate the financial resources required to meet the MDGs. The paper attempts …

This study attempts to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of poverty trends using national household … observe that Rural forest and Rural highlands regions were hardest hit by poverty and inequality trends in Cameroon. The … of poverty measures than the inter-sector population shift effects in the period under review. While the between …

poverty and economic crisis. Every country must confront and adapt to this inevitable and irreversible process that is …

insurgents, such as mountains and forests; a 10 percentage point increase in poverty is associated with 25—27 additional … poverty and geography is similar for deaths caused by the insurgents and deaths caused by the state. Furthermore, poorer …

Sustainable economic growth and Poverty alleviation is a principal objective of the developing countries. The present … economies i.e. Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Confined revenues and savings coupled with rising expenditures have … resource drain for already limited revenues and is halting economic growth and poverty reduction efforts. …

worldwide as a business model financially sustainable and able to fight poverty and social exclusion. Empirical evidence … confirms microcredit ability to mitigate poverty but its financial sustainability is controversial. Using 2006-2009 Portuguese …

This paper examines the impact of workers’ remittances on growth and poverty reduction in developing Asia … on poverty reduction through increasing income, smoothing consumption and easing capital constraints of the poor, they …

We review the literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty, and the results of … does not result in significant cuts to applied tariffs, and has very modest overall effects on welfare. Poverty in the … consistently lower poverty. …

This paper examines the link between poverty and income, on the one hand, and human capital and location, on the other … household head to the education of the most educated member. The paper finds poverty to be most severe and persistent for … paper finds that low human capital households tend to underinvest in the human capital of school-age members, thus likely …