, countries are also centering their development agenda on the broad goal of poverty reduction. This volume addresses a large … Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform. The volume brings together knowledge about …

While poverty reduction remains central in the Post-2015 Agenda, its determinants remain debated in the literature … global adoption of MDGs and state capacity. We do so by studying whether they facilitated convergence in income poverty … poverty headcount and gap measures tended to decrease faster in countries with initially higher income poverty. Such …

Goals and have greater effect in terms of reducing extreme poverty and inequality. The UN independent expert outlines the …

dynamic and long-term linkages among growth, inequality and poverty. First, agricultural sector growth is found to be … consistently the most important factor in reducing inequality and poverty not only through its direct effects but also through its …-urban migration and urbanisation as main drivers of growth and elimination of extreme poverty, and towards revival of agriculture in …