, supporting the middle class and reducing the poverty in the countries of the region. Originality/value – To the best of the …

, not much attention has been paid to the intergenerational effect of poverty on physical and psychological health status …

paradoxes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper looks at India where poverty is rampant despite recent gains, and at Bhutan …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to raise concern and discussion about poverty. This paper explores the … difficulties of defining poverty and its origins. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes research from psychological and … sociological literature to analyze differing schools of thought regarding poverty. A macro‐level perspective of poverty is defined …

Purpose – Poverty is indeed a terrible monster confronting humanity today. It is alarming and, indeed, not without … despair to note that 22,000 children under five die every day as a result of poverty. Thus, in a calendar year, more than … better place than when I arrived. If poverty is left unchecked, will we be able to make that statement with a clear and …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially the goal of poverty reduction. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs … to have significant impacts on poverty reduction. The poverty reducing impact of growth has also been weakened by the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the global dimensions of poverty, hunger, death, and disease. Design …. Findings – Reducing the higher incidence of poverty, hunger, death, and disease in sub‐Saharan African countries depends …

society, and to build a composite indicator of poverty (CIP) based on their preferences to act as a national benchmark for … poverty alleviation. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was administered shortly before the eruption of the … Egyptian Revolution. A series of regression models were run to uncover what Egyptians perceive to be the causes of poverty …

Purpose – The role of household socio‐economic factors towards achieving enduring poverty interventions especially … levers to improve welfare of the poor. The purpose of this paper is to examine poverty situations among urban households in … Ekiti State, Nigeria with emphasis on household socioeconomic characteristics and their associated influence on poverty …

inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare … implication of the empirical findings suggests that Fiji is unlikely to achieve its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty …