Poverty in third world (TW) countries is a serious problem, and microcredit has become the most popular approach to … in the TW poverty situation”. These criticisms, however, seem just as weak as the arguments supporting the model. One … economics. To inject some fresh ideas in the debate, this paper examined microcredit's poverty‐alleviating ability from the …

This paper is a study on child poverty from two perspectives: child income poverty (derived from family income) and … income‐based poverty measures and deprivation measures do not overlap. On the other hand, the relationship between poverty … and the child's living conditions is not linear. Uses micro‐econometric techniques to analyse child income poverty and …

poverty of SSA has many dimensions and causes, both internal and external. Certainly part of its underdevelopment is … is that the principal therapy for poverty in SSA comes from within by addressing the internal obstacles to growth …

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the current poverty situation and poverty alleviation efforts of the NGOs in … that the majority of the NGO beneficiaries remained below the poverty line in terms of income and the overwhelming majority … employment opportunity. The qualitative data on the perception of beneficiaries on the causes of poverty endorse this finding …

Purpose – This paper's purpose is to examine the nature and correlates of poverty in Ghana. Design …/methodology/approach – Using the most recently published household living standards survey; the paper computes poverty indicators using the Foster … et al. , and Theil's inequality indicators to examine the nature of poverty. It also does a qualitative analysis on the …

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to construct a poverty profile for Sri Lanka, and examine the micro …‐level determinants and correlates of poverty. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the latest Sri Lanka Integrated Survey … commissioned by the World Bank. The unconditional poverty profile was constructed using three different poverty measures (poverty …

Purpose – To review the literature on the relationship between growth, globalization, and poverty, and present … poverty. Design/methodology/approach – Notwithstanding data and methodological problems cited in the literature, this paper … makes an effort to quantitatively examine the issue of statistical correlation between growth and poverty variables, through …

), openness through trade, poverty, value added of agriculture sector as share of GDP, urban population and child labor by using …