people who might otherwise be at increased risk of HIV infection through poverty-induced decisions to migrate to urban …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

The drop in income poverty among the elderly in Canada over the last generation has been well-documented. In this paper …, I extend the calculation of head-count measures of poverty to all currently available microdata, spanning the years 1973 … to 2003. I then generate consumption poverty measures spanning 1969 to 2004 and compare to the income poverty results …

education, health, and poverty reduction and will make improvements in these areas very difficult. It may also be an important … between 1.5 and 3 percentage points. It could also significantly contribute to improvements in poverty, inequality, education …

The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case … study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has … impact of population growth on per capita economic growth and poverty. We find both theoretical considerations and strong …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality …

Poverty, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Guatemala This paper explores the causes of deforestation and … growth and poverty alleviation. …

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 paper explores the labor market, poverty, inequality and pro-poor growth dynamics in the recent economic crisis …, unemployment and inactivity. Policy responses in the labor market to poverty and inequality increases from the economic crisis were …