Views on poverty are deeply rooted in cultural frameworks about the human condition shaped by histories. In the debate … on modernity, perspectives on poverty oscillate between: a) making the poor -- their "morals" and "culture … in the discourses on poverty, which surfaced in the context of capitalist industrialisation and political debates on …

obesity epidemic cannot be separated from stemming the tide of poverty and income inequality gap. The obesity issue could be …

burgeoning trends in mobile phone penetration, KE and poverty. Hence, the IFS definition has incontrovertibly fought its final …

/4-2010 shows that about 1 out of 2 individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning out of agriculture into the … rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only 1 out of 7 exited poverty by migrating to the big cities, even though those …

Although many countries have made significant progress in the last decade, poverty and malnutrition continue to be … poverty in developing countries since June 2010, as food costs continue to rise. Innovation adoption is key to increasing farm … productivity. This necessited this study on innovation adoption, farm productivity and poverty status of rural smallholder farm …

The enlargement of the EU has stirred discussion about the relevance of the traditional EU poverty indicator. This … indicator measures poverty in relative and national terms. As a result, the poor in the least wealthy EU member states have very … additional poverty measures. One line of thought is that the reference groups people use for evaluating their living standard are …

Single mothers are vulnerable to living in poverty in contemporary European societies, which translates into economic … crucial one. In this article we address this issue by focusing on child benefits and exploring their impact on the poverty … child benefits play a major role in complementing the household income of single mothers but that the poverty …

The microeconomic analysis of poverty in Peru shows the following results. First, poverty is mainly explained by the … income of the poor which is not only low, but also highly unstable. Second, poverty is related to the poor’s bad decision …, borrowing, preventive heath, fertility and education decisions. Third, poverty depends of the external constraints the poor face …