Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to raise concern and discussion about poverty. This paper explores the … difficulties of defining poverty and its origins. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes research from psychological and … sociological literature to analyze differing schools of thought regarding poverty. A macro-level perspective of poverty is defined …

producers. This study examines the impact of rising food prices on welfare in Vietnam. Our results show that, overall, higher … food prices raised the average Vietnamese household’s welfare. However, higher food prices made most households worse off …. Average welfare was found to increase because the average welfare loss of households whose welfare declined (net purchasers …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and … the rural population. The poverty-reducing impacts are found to be positive for all three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …

This paper measures impacts of production of crops, forestry, livestock and aquaculture on household welfare, poverty …, the aquacultural production helps the producing households reduce the poverty incidence by 4.3 percentage points. It also … decreases the poverty gap and poverty severity indexes of the producing households by around 13 percent and 15 percent …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or … lack of it, in achieving the country’s commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the incidence of poverty and hunger …. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that the poverty trend is actually even more alarming than what the official …

note a decrease in real incomes accompanied by a decrease in poverty incidence. A comparison of income and expenditure … poverty reduction, we really need to bring the economy to a higher growth path. The second is that lapses in economic … performance, even if only momentary, are costly in terms of poverty reduction efforts. We recommend that a comprehensive poverty …

What is known, based on official poverty data, about spatial poverty profiles (regional, provincial, or rural vs. urban …) as well as poverty changes in recent years, is not quiet robust. The main problem is that the official practice for … poverty comparison is somewhat inconsistent. This paper is proposes a practical approach to measuring the poverty spatial …