This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …

Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …

Targeted Human Development Programs (THDPs) are integrated poverty reduction programs designed to increase the capacity …-school and school-age children. Their main long-term objective is to eradicate the structural causes of poverty by fostering … investment in the next generation's human capital. A secondary objective is to alleviate poverty in the short term, mainly …

This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions in poverty. While the four countries fall into three distinct groupings … reductions in poverty during the last two decades - a transformation that they achieved by taking substantially different paths …

(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …

Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that … and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on microfinance and poverty. The view of microcredit that emerges is …

poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six …

Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, on top of promoting economic growth, addresses …

of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …