This paper argues for a twin-track approach to hunger and poverty reduction that combines measures to promote rural … economic costs of hunger to show that direct action against hunger can itself contribute to poverty reduction. It goes on to …

The Millennium Development Goal No. 1 (MDG-1) aims to halve the number of people affected by poverty and hunger by 2015 …. Poverty and hunger are closely related overlapping phenomena, but they are not identical. Each affects different sets of … their own standing on the 5 measures in 1990; and c) which elements of hunger and poverty require the most urgent remedial …

evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …

evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …

evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …

This paper focuses on the problem of analyzing how factors impact hunger across states when hunger is ill …-defined. Hunger (which is a latent variable) is presumed to depend on macroeconomic, legislation, policy, and demographic variables … single most important factor we identify which affects the perceived hunger measure …

the basic facts about poverty, income distributions, and hunger at an aggregate level? This paper reviews the available …

We review the empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit on poverty in Bangladesh. Drawing on evidence from seven …