Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression and panel data from household … propose a simple estimate method to estimate the effect of urbanization on rural poverty. It is found that a one percent … poverty rate by 0.17 percentage point. However, we find an effect of urbanization on consumption of unhealthy goods …

Background In many developing countries, policies aimed at improving welfare through poverty reduction tend to target … the current poor to the neglect of the vulnerable. An understanding of household susceptibility to future poverty will be … to poverty estimates among households in Ghana and to examine the effect of various socioeconomic characteristics on …

The impact of education on earnings and thus on poverty works largely through labour market. Along with some other … socio economic factors, education does play a crucial role to alleviate poverty. Better educated people has greater … to make an attempt to show how the universalization of education can be used as a tool to eradicate poverty in near …

and Occupation is very low among backward classes, trapping them in multidimensional poverty that continues across … Jharkhand rather than that of West Bengal, this district has witnessed unprecedented severity of poverty and occupational … mobility. We measure poverty in Purulia district at the block level composing indices like Modified Capability Poverty Measure …

The purpose of this paper is dual: on the one hand, to look into a synthesis of the complex meaning of poverty; on the … other hand, to look into the concept of the feminization of poverty, through both its theoretical analysis and empirical … evidence in Spain in recent literature. There are several different methodologies for approaching the study of poverty, thus …

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the …

Incidence of poverty for Ghana has reduced from about 52% in 1991/92 to 28.5% in 2005/06. This is a remarkable drop in … the incidence of poverty, but the current level is still high. Equally high are the levels of the depth and severity of … poverty. This means that any policy pursued by the country must aim at further reducing the incidence, depth and severity of …