The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the European Union’s (EU's) portfolio of … EU countries drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we … explain how the near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from …

Traditional measures of poverty are informative in indicating the degree of economic deprivation in a population at a … cross-sectional point in time, but they do not consider growth in the size of the non-poverty population. We develop a … measure of non-poverty population growth in order to explore whether it constitutes a useful indicator of an important …

poverty reduction and fairly balanced regional development are high on the economic agenda, it is well known that our planning …

recent gains in poverty reduction. The impact of higher food prices is severe—an additional 112 million people could have … escaped poverty in Asia during the late 2000s if food prices had not increased during the period. Thus, long- and shortterm … strategies are needed to ensure food security and bolster efforts at poverty reduction. Policies to enhance food security that …

Although Ethiopia's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade and urbanization is increasing, the country …'s economic and spatial transformation has only just begun. Ethiopia's share of agriculture in GDP in 2006 (48 percent) was the … highest in the world, and more than double the average for low income countries (20 percent). Likewise, Ethiopia remains one …

Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition. Other reasons identified include unacceptably high levels of poverty in rural … nutrition considerations and activities into poverty reduction, agricultural development policies, and food security …

Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into … National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2007, about 69 million people were living in poverty, which represents 54.4 percent of the … Nigerian population. Since the 1980s, the Nigerian poverty situation has been deteriorating. …

patriarchy are negatively affecting the business ventures of the loan beneficiaries and by implication the goals of poverty … service delivery and Community organizing by social workers that will enhance the war against Poverty and other social …