the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the …

Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

For years, the international development community has been considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, which … approach to thoroughly measure poverty. This paper is an attempt to assess the state and evolution of multidimensional poverty …. However, there need to be more efforts to reduce the gap in poverty headcount ratios among Kinh and non-Kinh groups …

subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point … decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011, while rural poverty increased marginally. In this study we estimate an … alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …