find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …

poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … is less capital intensive (as capital flows to the informal sectors). This helps in understanding trends in urban poverty … given the strong association between the urban informal wage and degree of urban poverty. …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the … poverty in the different parts of the country. One size does not fit all. Deliberate effort of the government in …

Poverty though a universal phenomenon, is the worst challenge in the modern era, which is termed as the age of … information and technology. The present study was designed to estimate the incidence of poverty for the grade I employees of … Rawalpindi city. Determinants of poverty were explored by using Probit model, which was significant in the determination of the …

The paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of how employment change relates to changes in poverty in the … employment was accompanied by a relatively sizeable change in poverty rates as well. According to our preferred regression model … estimates, poverty to employment elasticity has been around 25 percent on average in the EU in the period between 2005 and 2012 …