After a brief historical review of studies in poverty, the author explores some key conceptual issues in defining poverty. He then defines and focuses on selected poverty measures and discusses the characteristics of the poor with special reference to some Asian countries, the USA and the U.K....

Recent years have seen the emergence of a considerable volume of literature on governance and its role in economic and social development of a country. This paper provides a critical review of the literature. This review brings into the open a number of serious conceptual, measurement, and data...