While Development as Freedom is considered to be one of the objectives of our national economic endeavors, and poverty …

that makes eliminating poverty and sustaining development the overriding objective of global development efforts. In the … is less than a dollar a day (a widely used yardstick to measure extreme poverty). However, estimating such poverty across … a brief summary of the state of the art in global poverty estimates, including the problems as well as the possible …

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy …

This study attempts to quantify the links between infrastructure investment and poverty reduction using a multi … quantifying the effects of some of the key linkages between upgraded infrastructure, economic growth, and poverty reduction. We … gains to the GMS countries as a result of infrastructure development and trade facilitation with national poverty reduced …

fall beyond a certain level of poverty. Social safety net programmes (SSNPs) are designed to provide support for the … vulnerable section of the society. With a vision to prevent transmission of poverty from generation to generation, the safety net … path towards poverty reduction in the long run. They do not reduce poverty directly, rather these programmes tend to reduce …

quantirativeiy calculates how much growth contributed to the reducfron of poverty since 1986. We argue that the impressive growth … incolne sources in reducing poverty. Applying Kakwani et.al (2004),s methodology to Thai household data during 1986-2002, it … household survey in 2000, the poverty elasticify is calculated at-1.206, meaning that for every I percent increase in average …