In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other … Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded …

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6% in 1993-94 to 46.4% in … state of affairs in agriculture. An analysis for 2004-05 shows that incidence of poverty is 47% for rural and 44% for urban … poverty line and the calorie that it is supposed to represent and a seeming nutritional crisis even among the groups that …

impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this study, we examine the impact on poverty in two … Pakistan is used to conduct simulations in order to assess the impact of an increase in foreign capital on poverty both in the … reduce poverty in the presence as well as in the absence of trade liberalisation when labour is homogeneous. However, poverty …

This report documents the results of a pilot project on a new poverty monitoring system that improves the current … system in three areas. First, it involves the locals in monitoring poverty in their own area. Second, the poverty indicators … decentralization that puts more power at the hands of the district governments in determining poverty alleviation programs, we believe …

, various studies concluded that economic growth was the most critical factor for reduction of incidence of poverty in the state … poised for a take-off to a high growth phase, almost similar to that at the national level. On the poverty dimension, however … National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), the standard source of data for poverty analysis in India by official and non …

Poverty reduction is a top priority for international organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations …. The aid resources available for poverty reduction are, however, severely constrained in many countries. Minimizing the … leakage of aid resources to the non-poor is a key to maximize poverty reduction with the limited amount of resources available …

The selection criteria for research locations for Moving Out of Poverty (MOP) in Indonesia uses two main variables … can increase their prosperity or move out of poverty; 2) how and why are there groups of people that are still trapped in … poverty; and 3) how and why are there groups of people who tend to fall into poverty. In general, this study shows that the …

Poverty is an extremely complex phenomenon that is linked to many specific factors and contexts. In the present study …, the dynamics of poverty including movements out of poverty are seen as part of the social mobility that occurs in a … community. This study specifically aims to understand why and how a group of people in a community can move out of poverty …

In the effort to effectively monitor the progress or draw backs in the fight against poverty to formulate more … effective poverty reduction programs, the issue on comparability of the official poverty estimates through space and time has … been raised. The official estimates are said to be inconsistent across regions because these are based on poverty lines …