poverty in selected Islamic countries. Design/methodology/approach – A model of income inequality along with a model of … poverty, with same explanatory variables, are specified. In these models, the main variables are income level, health status … will reduce income inequality and poverty in Islamic countries. Practical implications – The results of the empirical …

Purpose – The concept of poverty traps based on a critical threshold that distinguishes transitory from chronic poverty … non-poor and transitorily poor from falling into chronic poverty, cargo nets are meant to help those who fall below the … critical threshold to help them climb out of chronic poverty. The study attempts to determine the factors that affect a …

issues of poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities amongst the Indo-Fijian community. The Indo-Fijian community, since … extent of concern about poverty, unemployment and lack of basic facilities such as water, housing and electricity among the …

development and poverty reduction in Zambia. The paper attempts to answer one critical question: does financial sector development … in Zambia lead to poverty reduction? Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the newly developed autoregressive … consumption, a proxy for poverty reduction. Findings – When the broad money supply ratio (M2/GDP) is used as a proxy for financial …

poverty-environment hypothesis since household economic wealth is a significant and negative determinant of firewood …

specific poverty threshold, stochastic dominance tests are used. Madhya Pradesh demonstrated much better targeting than Tamil … Nadu in terms of the FGT class of poverty indices over a wide range of poverty thresholds. This finding is significant as …

targets. We outline a new MDG Progress Index, which compares country performance against the core MDG targets on poverty …

price of food items is higher. Therefore, the poverty headcount ratio increases. As expected, a reduction in the world price … and poverty, particularly in the rural areas. …

Philippines, called Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino. The study investigates the impact of CCT on current poverty and that of this … targeting, geographical targeting, targeting of the poor, and progressive targeting. In the poverty simulation approach, it is …