. We also provide evidence to suggest that income based targeting could outperform social group based targeting. …

symmetrical outcomes and for introducing inequalities in abilities and endowments. It is examined under what conditions income and … capital redistribution, as well as education, health and poverty-alleviation spending reduce the incentives for appropriation …

have attempted to demonstrate any association between affirmative action and poverty empirically. The author relied upon … a mixed but largely null relationship between Black poverty and affirmative action and concludes that affirmative action … programs have little impact on Black poverty levels.</p> …

<p>Max Skidmore reviews Michael Harrington's 1962 Classic <em>The Other America: Poverty in the United States …

poverty and the Chile Solidario program which was designed to combat extreme poverty. The paper discusses who is poor in Chile …, the problems with the existing data on poverty and extreme poverty, and the content of the program. The paper also … Solidario has failed to reduce poverty in the short term.</p> …

other variables, the probability of a district being Naxalite-affected rose with an increase in its poverty rate and fell … with a rise in its literacy rate. So, one prong in an anti-Naxalite strategy would be to address the twin issues of poverty …

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last …-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection … incomes from other sources. This paper provides an overview of social assistance and other minimum-income programmes in OECD …

Poverty reduction is the top-most element in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations those …

income and consumption levels by quintiles and areas, and iii) on consumption based poverty indicators by areas. The …This paper evaluates the short term impacts on poverty of pro-poor expenditure and total social expenditure during the …, income, saving and prices (based on a simple static 1-2-3 model built with 1998 data as the base year), ii) on household …

The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction … in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in … Pakistan for the period 1973-2007. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty …