The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recognize the need to understand the link between disability and poverty. In … fact this has become one of the key issues in the subject of poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific. The United Nations …

poverty measurement are analysed. So, multidimensional analysis of poverty is presented and connected concepts such as … los de vulnerabilidad o exclusión social. In this paper, the evolution and future perspectives of poverty analysis are … surveyed, paying especial attention on the studies that have been carried in the Spanish case. Firstly, the concept of poverty …

This paper examines the precise links between foreign direct investment (henceforth, FDI) and poverty alleviation … international borders, therefore FDI reduces poverty only under certain circumstances. “Roll out the red carpet for foreign … more FDI, exploit it more efficiently and reduce poverty. Empirical analysis using panel data of 62 countries, from 1996 to …

expenditure and permanent income are compared regarding their level and structure of inequality and poverty. Both inequality and … poverty appear to be substantially lower using the distribution of permanent income instead of either the distribution of … of inequality and poverty is employed using appropriate indices. …

This paper studies the impact of taxation on poverty and ex ante vulnerability of households in rural China based on … national household survey data in 1988, 1995 and 2002. It has been confirmed that i) poverty and vulnerability have reduced …€™s poverty and vulnerability. The abolishment of rural tax since 2006 would thus have a significant negative impact on both …

solution to all problems – be it poverty, unemployment or inequalities based on gender, class and caste. Higher economic …

living conditions, which will give us the poverty measurement in Morocco during the period 1987-2004. This approach is based …This paper focuses the understanding for the poverty phenomenon in Morocco. Indeed, it is strongly based on the … assessment and analysis of economic growth on the poorest people by using the calculation of poverty indexes as FGT, the …

that the price shock is passed through in total to the farmers, food poverty in the rural areas could be reduced by almost … 14%. If incomes are not passed through, rural food poverty would increase quite significantly in some provinces. It is …

impacts of a social pension scheme for reducing elderly poverty in Vietnam. We simulate how the poverty rate, poverty gap, and … poverty severity of the elderly would have been changed in the counterfactual situation that such a scheme had been introduced … the social pension, there would be beneficial poverty reductions, but also large leakages to the non-poor people. For a …