This paper descriptively analyzes the poverty scenario in Nepal and particularly focuses on poverty and the … macroeconomic condition, trends and dimensions of poverty, periodic development plans and their effect on poverty and finally the … already been more than six decades, however, Nepal still suffers from poverty coupled with low economic growth, unemployment …

income distribution and poverty levels within those countries.The objective of this study is to produce an estimate of the … impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil, considering not only the …

are those with low poverty rates. We go beyond the simple bivariate correlation by controlling for other variables and …

Although there is no doubt that social security can help poverty reduction, their effect on poverty reduction can vary … investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social … expenditure than social allowances. Pensions and social allowances reduce poverty of the recipients as well as the whole …

poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the … debate by empirically examining the poverty-alleviation effects of one of the largest targeted programs in the world: the … survey dataset covering the 1993-2009 period, this research investigates the impact of the MLSA on poverty alleviation. The …

Role of non-farm sector was found to be vital with high share in household income (37%). Also, lower values for poverty … the hills. Livestock sector, thus, could also contribute significantly and help reduce poverty and inequality with … reducing poverty as well as income-inequality, availability of more non-farm earning opportunities may be helpful to combat …

Abstract Poverty reproduces into the system, which generates it. The system creates conditions to prevail and to secure … functionality. The erosion of the possibilities of intergenerational social mobility, associated with the reproduction or poverty … aimed at alleviating poverty, in terms of such legitimation, play a very important role as a means to redistribute income …

In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two … independent and pooled datasets. Our analysis shows that levels of consumption poverty have declined marginally between 1995 …-96 and 2004 while increased proportion of elderly with poor health status is continued. Results suggest that poverty is one …

explore the effects of remittances on Bolivian household poverty levels. We use micro data from the 2008 Household Survey … treated to compare the poverty level between households which receive and do not receive remittances. Results show that … remittances have a positive effect on reducing urban households’ poverty level, whereas there is no effect on rural households …