Similar Search Results

Poverty in the Philippines : An Update and Reexamination

Balisacan, Arsenio M. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 38 (2001) 1, pp. 15-52

new poverty profiles based on nationwide household surveys covering the late 1990s. The paper also examines how initial …What is known, based on official poverty data, about spatial poverty profiles (regional, provincial, or rural vs. urban …) as well as poverty changes in recent years, is not quiet robust. The main problem is that the official practice for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672402

China and India : challenges and opportunities for poverty eradication and moderating inequality in Malaysia

Zin, Ragayah Haji Mat - In: Philippine Review of Economics 43 (2006) 1, pp. 109-130

Malaysia has employed the mechanism of growth with equity in an effort to eradicate poverty and ameliorate inequality … rise of China and India with respect to poverty eradication and reducing income inequality. The challenges include … serious implications on employment opportunities and efforts at eradicating poverty and narrowing income disparity. On the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672412

Wicksell's Social Philosophy and his Unanimity Rule

Johnson, Marianne - In: Review of Social Economy 68 (2010) 2, pp. 187-204

Wicksell saw economics as a way to effect social change. In addition to academic writings, he produced a steady stream of pamphlets, newspaper editorials, and public lectures that brought theoretical economics to bear on social policy. In this paper, consideration is given to this wider variety...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674647

Is financial development a spur to poverty reduction? Kenya's experience

Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 37 (2010) September, pp. 343-353

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675225

Are Biofuels Good for African Development? An Analytical Framework with Evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on the other hand, view biofuels as a threat to food...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675784

Measuring IDA program's impact

Community Affairs Office - In: e-Perspectives (2010) 2

Since 2007, the state of New Mexico has invested $2.45 million to support Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) for New Mexico savers. This funding provides a much-needed local match required by federal IDA funding, which was awarded through the Assets for Independence Act.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676455

Community Action in southern New Mexico

Community Affairs Office - In: e-Perspectives (2010) 2

poverty. Programs were established in a majority of counties across the U.S., including some in rural areas. Many programs …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676456

Socio-economic conditions of child labor: A case study for the fishing sector on Balochistan coast

Hai, Akhtar Abdul; Fatima, Ambreen; Sadaqat, Mahpara - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) March, pp. 316-338

fishing. It is observed that the main cause of child labor is not poverty it comes out to be low quality of education, lack of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676515

An empirical investigation of the effects of health and education on income distribution and poverty in Islamic countries

Bakhtiari, Sadegh; Meisami, Hossein - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) March, pp. 293-301

poverty in selected Islamic countries. Design/methodology/approach – A model of income inequality along with a model of … poverty, with same explanatory variables, are specified. In these models, the main variables are income level, health status … will reduce income inequality and poverty in Islamic countries. Practical implications – The results of the empirical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676529

Rigidities restraining movement of a rural artisan from poor to non-poor state: An empirical investigation of an Indian poverty reduction programme

Bhaumik, Pradip K.; Banik, Arindam - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) January, pp. 17-40

Purpose – The concept of poverty traps based on a critical threshold that distinguishes transitory from chronic poverty … non-poor and transitorily poor from falling into chronic poverty, cargo nets are meant to help those who fall below the … critical threshold to help them climb out of chronic poverty. The study attempts to determine the factors that affect a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676533