public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

HIV/AIDS is both a cause and a symptom of chronic poverty and requires new and innovative policy instruments and … – for tackling chronic poverty among people living with HIV/AIDS …

Primary education is widely perceived to have a key role in reducing poverty and is positively associated with … to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, this review argues that the processes by which … education influences poverty are insufficiently understood, particularly with respect to intergenerational poverty transmission …

This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among … unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes. The paper finds that non-contributory pensions have a … measurable and significant impact upon poverty reduction and poverty prevention in the two countries studied …

Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic … minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the …

In recognizing that poverty is 'multi-dimensional,' contemporary policy discourses – drawing on scholarship on … significantly on them, coherent theories of and useful policy responses to chronic poverty require attention to three additional …, (b) explain how and why poverty persists as part of broader processes of economic prosperity and social change, (c …

widespread problems, which have been shown to drive and maintain poverty and which are also clearly associated with … the focus of this study because they are generally weakly addressed by the development and poverty policies of both donors … they necessarily have the strongest causal link with chronic poverty, marginality or vulnerability, but rather because they …

Land redistribution is often seen as a powerful tool in the fight against poverty in areas where a majority of people … alienation that occurred during colonial occupation has been acknowledged as one of several ultimate causes of chronic poverty …. Strategies for poverty reduction therefore tend to focus on addressing the resultant imbalance in access to, and ownership of …

The relationships between poverty and the environment are highly contested, debated and researched. The sustainable … of sustainable development. The relationship between environmental sustainability and poverty is two-fold. From an … environmental perspective poverty is often seen as a key driving force behind unsustainable environmental use. In relation to …

This paper examines recent contributions to the analysis of poverty, particularly those emphasising the constraints on … framework for study of the causes of poverty, responses to poverty and the consequences of those responses. This framework is … processes linking poverty at the local level with the regional and national political economy. It also suggests that responses …