The poverty gap is the ratio by which the mean income of the poor falls below the poverty line. The poverty line is … defined as half the median household income of the total population. The poverty gap helps refine the poverty rate by … providing an indication of the poverty level in a country. This indicator is measured for the total population, as well as for …

Eradicating poverty has long been one of the priorities of development co-operation. Yet, despite undoubted progress … towards this goal, the strategies adopted at the international and national levels remain controversial. Poverty reduction is … thorough as the state of the art will allow. How realistic is it to seek to cut extreme poverty by half by the year 2015? What …

civil society organisations, are focusing as never before on the development priority of reducing poverty by half by 2015 …. Country-led and country-owned poverty reduction strategies focusing on local needs and priorities as determined by … stakeholders are now the focus of all development assistance efforts. The DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction provide practical …

advantage of EFR approaches in both their development and poverty reduction strategies. Following a review of the instruments of … EFR and related technical issues, Environmental Fiscal Reform for Poverty Reduction focuses on the political economy and …