This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from … 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The … investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption …

Poverty and inequality persist in many dimensions in the developing world. In order to understand the determinants of … poverty and its distribution between and within countries, it is necessary to know its dimensions and the channels through … which poverty and inequality affect human well-being. This book analyzes the spatial disparities of the outcomes and …

global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising … being able to analyze the determinants of the different global problems and especially of poverty, it is of fundamental … importance to find the right indicators for each phenomenon. This book contributes to the discussion of appropriate poverty …

the current global economic order may contribute to perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries. To …

This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons … of poverty comparisons show that: children with the lowest probability of survival are from households with the lowest … level of assets; and poverty orderings for child survival by assets are robust to the choice of the poverty line and to the …

This paper uses a fixed-effects model to analyze the effect of IMF programs on poverty with data from 82 countries … during 1985 to 2000. Two indicators of poverty, infant mortality rates and the Human Development Index (HDI), are utilized … governance factors. The results show that the IMF's programs have no significant direct impact on poverty. Growth and good …

Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …