labels applied to the poor have shifted: from being a symptom of racial weakness, to the culture of poverty, and now to …

Based on meso data, study analyses the causes of poverty and food insecurity. It seeks to identify who is food insecure … financial services and promoting small scale industries as well as micro enterprises and strengthening anti-poverty programmes … within the state. The two district sampled, where more or less half population are under poverty. Livelihood options are …

-term development plan and the Millennium Development Goals, poverty in its multidimensionality remain a major issue in Indonesia as a … consistently since 2002, most of those escaping poverty are still vulnerable and just a small shock can send them quickly below the … poverty line. Using the PPP $2/day poverty line as a vulnerability measure, the World Bank (2006) found that 45% of …

The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …

This paper has explored the relationship between infrastructure and growth and poverty in the context of the Bangladesh … extremely significant role in promoting growth and alleviating poverty in Bangladesh. The construction of the district … suggest that the district-wise variation in head-count poverty is well explained by the variation in the IDI and the district …

This paper decomposes changes in poverty into growth and redistribution components, and employs several pro-poor growth … concepts and indices to explore the growth, poverty and inequality nexus in Indonesia over the period 2002-2012. We find a … for other factors to account for around two-fifths of total household expenditure inequality in Indonesia. If poverty …

This paper examines impacts of income from informal employment and informal sector employment on poverty in Vietnam to … define whether the informal economy is an accelerator or a decelerator of poverty. Using data from Vietnam Household Living … the poor households in comparison with the non-poorhouseholds, it significantly contributes to poverty reduction. Without …

poverty reduction at the regional level, with a particular emphasis on the role of decentralization. Over the past decade … Indonesia has made significant progress in reducing poverty, from 23% of the population in 1999 to less than 12% in 2013 …. However, substantial differences in regional poverty are observed. In this paper, we discuss the factors that drive the …