more equal and just; it begins by demonstrating that world poverty is pervasive, and that the global economic structure is …, helping toward ending world poverty and extreme inequality, the paper and its findings constitute an original and a valuable …

services. For the purpose of holistic approach for micro-enterprises' development and poverty alleviation, the spiritual …, poverty alleviation will be successful if Islamic financing is conducted in many areas, and the government takes part in this …

mechanisms for financing poverty alleviation programmes and the value of the third sector in promoting public welfare. Design … institution of awqaf reducing poverty through the provision of quality education, better health care and employment opportunities …. Government will be made aware of the need to explore non-conventional methods in tackling poverty, recognize Islamic endowments …

The almshouse dominated the thinking about poverty and the poor during America's period of industrialization and its …

The Census Bureau has estimated the nation's annual poverty rate since 1963 using data from the Bureau's Current … the nature of material deprivation within the household. This paper will take an alternative approach to assessing poverty …

This paper develops and applies new measures of poverty that overcome a number of specific methodological flaws in the … official US poverty statistics. Sen's distribution sensitive index of poverty and each of its components are estimated at … several distinct poverty thresholds for the period 1961-1996. Distribution sensitive measures of urban poverty are corrected …

Adam Smith's views on poverty have received less attention than one would expect, but they are worth examining. In the … Moral Sentiments Smith takes a skeptical, ironic view of the striving for material goods and wealth. Poverty is treated not … “poverty” (poorness) as widespread but not problematic in commercial society, since wage earners do not experience actual …

such issues as the need for adequate wages, the prevalence of poverty, and the adverse impacts of the globalization of …