This paper evaluates the role of participating in poultry production on household income and rural poverty in Mzimba …-based poverty measures and investigates their sensitivity to the use of different poverty lines. Robust poverty comparisons across … the poultry and non-poultry farmers reveal that poverty is in fact higher for the non-poultry compared to the poultry …

, including data on the level of poverty and inequality in Jordan. Part 2 discusses the challenges and opportunities facing …

After a decade implementing the Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) for the period 2001-2010, Comprehensive Poverty … poverty, rising inequality, and climate changes that can slow down the progress of MDGs. These report documents the successes …

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …

Zambia is a landlocked country located in southern central Africa and it is one of the poorest countries in the world …

For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …

. The results show differences in human capital estimations on wages and factors related to labor poverty when missing … values of earnings are ignored. Differences are acute when measuring labor poverty. …

Poverty has increased during the 90s overall as well as in rural and urban areas, after experiencing downward trends … during the 80s. Besides, the gap between rural and urban poverty has also widened. The recent estimates show that more than … one-third of our population lives in extreme poverty, and around 70% of these unfortunate people reside in rural areas …