Purpose – The objective of the paper is to examine the profile and determinants of urban poverty in the two largest … cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. The paper also investigates the dynamic aspect of urban poverty in Vietnam. Design …/methodology/approach – The authors use regression and data from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey to examine the determinants of poverty in Vietnam …

The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or … lack thereof, in achieving the country’s commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015,the incidence of poverty and hunger …. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that the poverty trend is actually even more alarming than what the official …

While economic growth has been cited as one of the main factors behind the reduction in absolute poverty, the … persisting problem of poverty in developing countries has raised doubts about the efficacy of economic growth in its reduction …. Recent evidence revealed that growth in Asia has been accompanied by an increase in relative poverty, or income inequality …

The study was designed to examine the contribution of Kakum Rural Bank (KRB) to poverty reduction in the Komenda …-financial services, has helped in poverty reduction in the KEEA Municipality. Data gathered from the respondents showed a significant … improvement in most of the poverty indicators, with the exception of provision of potable water and clothing for families. Judging …

, significantly reduce poverty, and become middle- or even high-income countries in the span of one or two generations. Interwoven …

infant mortality rates to higher life expectancy. Yet, 1.3 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty in the …

-semideviation as a risk parameter. We identify vulnerability by comparing the uncertain outcomes of household well-being with poverty …This paper introduces a new approach for measuring vulnerability to poverty, using the standard downside mean …

Whether there is a poverty penalty, in terms of food prices, is unsettled in the literature after more than four … decades of study. Unit values from household surveys suggest that prices vary with income while outlet surveys typically find …

FHHs are poorer than MHHs in Nigeria using wealth index as a poverty measure. We analysed the household data from the last …The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by year 2015. Targeting … to deploy these resources to combat poverty. The relationship between gender and poverty may indicate a targeting …

receipt of remittances greatly reduces likelihood of household poverty. These findings support the growing view that … other countries) on investment and poverty in Ghana. It has three findings. First, when compared to what they would have … remittances can reduce poverty and increase investment in developing countries. …