It outlines the broad framework and the strategy for poverty reduction based on four pillars: (a) accelerating economic …

This study is concerned with the measurement of poverty in the context of developing countries. We argue that poverty … literature on this topic, our methodology introduces a critical but missing analytical distinction between time poverty and time …

€œgreen†economic growth, which can not only provide the new markets and jobs needed immediately for alleviating poverty, but also …

warming pollutants—as well as their linkage with poverty. [ADBI Working Paper 227] …

Chronic poverty trends cannot be examined without considering the impact of various social conflicts afflicting a … region. It is true that all forms of poverty cannot be explained by conflicts as much as all conflicts cannot be attributed … to poverty. But, in many economically backward states, poverty and conflict have largely a two-way relationship; poverty …

poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic needs approach, an … analysis-ofcovariance model is derived and estimated, with the headcount, gap and squared gap poverty ratios serving as the … the responsiveness of poverty to income growth is a decreasing function of inequality, albeit at varying rates for the …

the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …

results indicate that household characteristics such as poverty, family size, the education of the household head, and …) of the National Statistics Office (NSO) and the 1998 Annual Poverty Indicator Survey (APIS) data set. It then proceeds to … estimated to measure the impact of household and individual characteristics and location variables on the probability of child …

Surveys of self-rated poverty, done in the Philippines at the national level 56 times over 1983-2001, quarterly since … 1992, demonstrate that poverty is volatile even in the short run. The self-rated poor are about twice as many as the poor … officially defined. The official poverty line meets the subjective needs of only half of the self-rated poor. Surveys into food-poverty …

note a decrease in real incomes accompanied by a decrease in poverty incidence. A comparison of income and expenditure … poverty reduction, we really need to bring the economy to a higher growth path. The second is that lapses in economic … performance, even if only momentary, are costly in terms of poverty reduction efforts. We recommend that a comprehensive poverty …