, changes in the incidence and severity of money-metric poverty in South Africa since 1993 have been a source of debate …. Household surveys suggest that poverty appears to have persisted during the 1990s, with perhaps some improvement since 2000 … story of poverty and inequality in South Africa. Data from the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) collected between …

Social protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing … countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how a transfer … programme should respond to the dynamics of poverty. This paper contributes to the existing literature on social protection by …

The study investigated the linkages between education, poverty and economic growth in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and … education and economic growth, while poverty is found to be inversely related to economic growth for these countries of South … Asia. The study recommends that each sample country should adopt poverty reduction and education enhancing policies to …

poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-1988 CI-LSMS and the 1998 … for food poverty reduction through private agricultural investment. The itinerary analysis of the households classified …

The measurement of poverty has often been criticized for relying solely on measures of financial deprivation. Poverty … tides, care should be taken to integrate these various components to have a proper picture of poverty. This is especially …, unemployment or housing benefits. Social exclusion and poor health can therefore dominate the poverty feeling.We illustrate how …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …

In this study, we analyze the spatial effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on poverty reduction in Vietnam. This … empirically the impact of FDI on poverty reduction in Vietnam. The study finds that FDI has contributed to poverty reduction not … only directly but also indirectly through human capital. However, FDI has indirectly worsened poverty through international …

addressed in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with growth and poverty. Though the intertwined relationship among … growth, poverty and inequality has already been hypothesized by Kuznets (1955), it is still questioned by many other scholars …. To reveal the relationship among growth, poverty and inequality in the aftermath of MDGs’ failures for better …

Using longitudinal household data and an econometric model of conditional poverty transitions, this paper contributes … to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The results reveal that a range of household head … poor and slipping into poverty. These findings have important implications for Australian policymakers: tertiary education …