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Fight against hunger and poverty in rural India
Small farmers constitute more than 50 per cent of the country’s farming population and account for more than half of the number of hungry and poor...
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Human Capital and Rural Residents’ Poverty Dynamic Changes
The lack of human capital is one of the root causes for the high poverty headcount ratio in develo** countries and also one of the critical reasons...
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The relationship between education and vulnerability to poverty in South Africa
This study examines the relationship between education and poverty vulnerability in South Africa by using the disaggregated approach. The study uses...
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Role of State and Innovative Agricultural Technology in Poverty Alleviation in China: A Study of Hebei Province
Since the reform and opening up, China has developed and implemented a poverty alleviation strategy on a large scale, which has lifted 700 million...
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The Effectiveness of the COVID-19 Economic and Social Relief Package as a Poverty Alleviation Strategy in South Africa
In South Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic has subjected the population to abject poverty. In response to the challenges posed by the pandemic, the South...
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A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data
While many alternative poverty measures have been found in the development literature based on income, consumption, or combinations of the two,...
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The role of green finance in eradicating energy poverty: ways to realize green economic recovery in the post-COVID-19 era
Realizing green economic recovery and eradicating energy poverty have become China’s strategic priorities in the post-COVID-19 era. In the context of...
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Spatial analysis of the effect of microfinance on poverty and inequality in Ghana
Although microfinance is usually delivered with a spatial outlook, the literature is so far silent on the potential spatial effect of microfinance...
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Does Services Sector Encourage Migration and Reduce Poverty?
Based on the cross-sectional data, this study examines the role of the services sector in the context of migration from the rural to the urban areas....
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Shadow Economy and Poverty: What Causes What?
Despite a growing number of empirical works on the shadow economy and poverty, the bidirectional causality between these two phenomena has been a...
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Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty
The issue of poverty has traditionally been of interest to development economists. Scholars usually tend to classify poverty as absolute poverty and...
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Assessment of multidimensional rural poverty in Burji and Konso area, Southern Ethiopia
Poverty is one of the hoariest socio-economic problems in the world and a complex concept that attracted the involvement of several researchers and...
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Localising decent work for poverty reduction in Africa: a case study of the decent work pilot project in Ghana
Since the adoption of Local Agenda 21, local governments have been enjoined to become active players in major development agendas, including the...
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Poverty in India: Measurement, Trends and Other Issues
Eradication of poverty is an important objective of economic policy. Therefore, measurement of poverty has to be sound as it has significant policy...
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Food Security and Poverty
This chapter elaborates on the root causes of food insecurity in the world. It presents Islamic economic empowerment programs to ensure the...
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Relieving Relative Poverty in Rural China
After the analysis of the first nine chapters, the book finds that in China's rural areas, the overall economic growth in rural areas is conducive to...
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Exploring the Significance of Food Insecurity Mediated Poverty and Low Productivity Traps: Furthering Policy by Reconciling Secondary Data with Primary Survey
Food security has important positive implications for cognition, the basis for human capital formation. This paper points to the highly probable food...
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Economic growth and the state of poverty in India: sectoral and provincial perspectives
This study undertakes a sector-by-sector account of economic growth, historically since the inception of economic planning, and analyses the...
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The intersection of China’s rural economy, renewable energy, and carbon neutrality
In our extensive analysis covering 1990–2022, we examined the intricate dynamics among carbon emissions, green energy adoption, rural population...
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Terrorism→Poverty→Road Building: Risk Analysis of the Underlying Logic of the CPEC Infrastructure
Can the infrastructure capacity, which is represented by road building, thoroughly eliminate the threat of terrorism faced by the Belt and Road...