Verbreitete Armut ist nach wie vor eines der zentralen Probleme der arabischen Entwicklungsländer, das nicht nur auf …, lack the necessary will to alleviate poverty or to re-distribute income vertically. They are much more concerned about …

facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangladesh. In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly 2 … million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. …

SETTING: In the Cape Town suburbs of Ravensmead and Uitsig, tuberculosis has reached epidemic levels, with … notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …

ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico … among consumption variability, the level than nonfood consumption, the incidence of poverty, and the probability of being …

This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories … the market (Chambers 1995; Chakravarti 2006; Duflo 2006). Bangladesh was chosen for this study because it is typical of …

The thesis addresses the question of how poverty can be overcome by education. The starting point is the following type … of poverty trap: poverty forces parents to send their children to work to secure the survival of the household. Due to … growth model such a type of poverty trap is established as a locally stable steady state. Imperfect capital markets prevent …

This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to reduce poverty and unemployment in … these approaches to the broader literature on poverty reduction, economic development, politics, and the reform of …