‐depth interviews took place with companies that had succeeded in serving customers living in poverty. Companies were identified from …

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of the components of human capital on the extent of poverty and income … developing economies, it is found that the fraction of the population below the poverty line is linearly dependent upon gender … alleviate poverty and improve the distribution of income. Originality/value – This paper provides useful information on the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the determinants of rural and national poverty, of income … national rural poverty line in a developing country is dependent upon the logarithm of per capita purchasing power parity gross …

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the inter‐temporal causal relationship between financial development and poverty … Kenya a spur to poverty reduction? Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a trivariate causality model based on … savings rate as an intermittent variable in the bivariate causality setting between financial development and poverty …

Purpose – This study seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Is there a relationship between poverty and … income inequality in the short run/long run? Is the relationship unidirectional from income inequality to poverty as the … income inequality and poverty within a multivariate framework using a panel data set of 50 US states over the period 1980 to …

Outlines a method for controlling for compositional factors in the measurement of poverty. Bases the method on “shift …‐share analysis” and “direct standardization”, consistent with Sen’s (1976) influential axiomatic approach to poverty measurement …. Employs the popular poverty index proposed by Foster et al . (1984), which is one of the few summary poverty measures that can …