The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the European Union’s (EU's) portfolio of … EU countries drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we … explain how the near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from …

Traditional measures of poverty are informative in indicating the degree of economic deprivation in a population at a … cross-sectional point in time, but they do not consider growth in the size of the non-poverty population. We develop a … measure of non-poverty population growth in order to explore whether it constitutes a useful indicator of an important …

poverty reduction and fairly balanced regional development are high on the economic agenda, it is well known that our planning …

's economy and the extent of poverty reduction in the coming decade. …

Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition. Other reasons identified include unacceptably high levels of poverty in rural … nutrition considerations and activities into poverty reduction, agricultural development policies, and food security …

Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into … National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2007, about 69 million people were living in poverty, which represents 54.4 percent of the … Nigerian population. Since the 1980s, the Nigerian poverty situation has been deteriorating. …

patriarchy are negatively affecting the business ventures of the loan beneficiaries and by implication the goals of poverty … service delivery and Community organizing by social workers that will enhance the war against Poverty and other social …

Evidence on the association between traditional poverty measures and health is widely available in the literature …. However, the traditional ex-post poverty measures neglect many aspects of household welfare by overlooking the risk that a … household faces in view of fewer resources available to it. Household's vulnerability to expected poverty is an alternative …