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 …

The distinction between transitory and chronic poverty has been highlighted in the research conducted by the Chronic … Poverty Research Centre. While estimates of the incidence of poverty obtained from sample based studies provide insights into … the prevalence of poverty and its severity at a point of time, estimates of persistence of poverty need to be examined …

The recent round of poverty estimates, placing Orissa as the poorest state in India, has pressed an alarm bell among … situation of chronic poverty, where the central thrust is on expediting growth. Agricultural growth occupies a special … significance in this approach since the sector, of late, has demonstrated direct and significant impact on poverty reduction across …

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 …

Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent questions facing South … Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in the work of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre …, situates it within the broader literature on poverty in South Africa, and considers some emergent challenges. Though PLAAS …

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 …

Intergenerational Transmissions of Poverty (IGT), which attempts to identify the extent to which such processes occur, the nature and … likelihood that poverty is passed from one generation to the next. This annotated bibliography is divided into sections …, Training and Reversals in Poverty Trajectories - Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (This section …

relationship between violent conflict and chronic poverty. Following a discussion of some key concepts, recent empirical research … is reviewed. Both the transmission mechanisms from violent conflict through to chronic poverty and the impact of chronic … poverty on conflict are considered. The paper concludes by identifying gaps in the current state of knowledge on this subject …

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 …