The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or … lack of it, in achieving the country's commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the incidence of poverty and hunger …. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that the poverty trend is actually even more alarming than what the official …

of development to redefine concepts such as development and poverty. …

of ownership by analysing the substance of 22 developing countries' Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the … income poverty reduction and social sector investments (education, health and water) are important priorities in most of the … a goal of reducing inequality in income and other dimensions of poverty within and between countries. Second, this …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to reduce poverty in general and …