This chapter was originally drafted in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy. It … Statistics and Geo-Information Services. The chapter estimates the level of poverty and vulnerability in the country, provides a … profile of poverty, and analyzes the household level determinants or correlates of consumption and poverty. Slightly less than …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship Workers’ Remittances, poverty, and economic growth in Sub … models to determine the link between Remittances and poverty on the one hand, Remittances and growth on the other. Recourse … to the instrumental variables method turned out to be better for the estimation of the poverty model, while the standard …

goal to reduce the poverty, extreme poverty and inequity and to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by …

growth, and urban equity measured by urban poverty and inequality in India. In addition, it reviews the different urban … of urbanization is associated with higher economic growth, lower level of poverty and higher extent of inequality in … higher share of national GDP by reducing urban poverty and inequality. …

In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity …, religion and even regional origins all influence income outcomes. Therefore while examining individual poverty, the influence …

The Appalachian mountain region has long been characterized by deep poverty which led to the formation of the … York to Mississippi (Ziliak 2012). The ARC region had an average county poverty rate of over 40 percent in 1960, about … double the national average (Deaton and Niman 2012; Ziliak 2012). While the poverty gap between the ARC region and the rest …

The objective of fight against poverty was at the origin of the creation of the institutions of microfinance (IMF … really? What do the impact studies learn on the contribution from the microfinance to the poverty reduction in the developing … regards poverty approach on the whole of the units (recipients and not recipients of the financial services) and of the …

This edition is devoted to the issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish … of poverty in general. However, in case the risk occurs, efficient and effective support measures should be provided …. First part of the report defines poverty, and explains the extent of the connection with such phenomena as economic …