Views on poverty are deeply rooted in cultural frameworks about the human condition shaped by histories. In the debate … on modernity, perspectives on poverty oscillate between: a) making the poor -- their "morals" and "culture … in the discourses on poverty, which surfaced in the context of capitalist industrialisation and political debates on …

obesity epidemic cannot be separated from stemming the tide of poverty and income inequality gap. The obesity issue could be …

burgeoning trends in mobile phone penetration, KE and poverty. Hence, the IFS definition has incontrovertibly fought its final …

/4-2010 shows that about 1 out of 2 individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning out of agriculture into the … rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only 1 out of 7 exited poverty by migrating to the big cities, even though those …

Although many countries have made significant progress in the last decade, poverty and malnutrition continue to be … poverty in developing countries since June 2010, as food costs continue to rise. Innovation adoption is key to increasing farm … productivity. This necessited this study on innovation adoption, farm productivity and poverty status of rural smallholder farm …

The enlargement of the EU has stirred discussion about the relevance of the traditional EU poverty indicator. This … indicator measures poverty in relative and national terms. As a result, the poor in the least wealthy EU member states have very … additional poverty measures. One line of thought is that the reference groups people use for evaluating their living standard are …