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 …

‐economic systems, and political structures. The challenges in achieving food security are to reduce poverty, increase food security … break the cycle of poverty. Originality/value – The paper presents comprehensive research work in the field of global food …

, inequality and poverty, which paves a vista for further academic discourse. Design/methodology/approach – As a meta …, inequality and poverty should be investigated further. Unemployment increases levels of inequality and poverty within society … problem of global unemployment, the corollary of which is endemic inequality and poverty. Practical implications – Increases …

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to evaluate poverty among children using a multidimensional concept of child poverty … constructs measures of child poverty/deprivation based on specific child indicators of well‐being. Finally uses the paper …