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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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Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Hunger and Prices
This chapter attempts to differentiate poverty from hunger, based on three elements: the notion of time, their determinants and the direction of...
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Financial Development Contribution to Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
This study investigates the bank intermediation role (e.g., deposits, financing, and offices) contribution to enhancing Indonesian districts’ gross...
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Financial inclusion and multidimensional child poverty
Despite the concerted efforts being made at the global, regional, and national levels to reduce child poverty, children in resource-poor countries...
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Corporation Participation in Poverty Alleviation: A Bibliometric Analysis and Content Review
In the current world, corporations are essential participants of poverty alleviation. However, there are only fragmented studies on corporation...
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Anti-Poverty Transfers: Policy Successions with Little Success
Indian social welfare policy has traditionally considered poverty to be synonymous with hunger and famines in rural areas. Ongoing changes in the...
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Evolution of India’s Policy Response to Hunger, Nutrition, and Food Security Since Independence
At the time of its independence, India did not have enough production of food grains to meet its domestic demand and had to depend on imports. The...
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Whence Poverty
In this Chapter we will examine whether through the lenses of interdependence we can spot a society in which the rich are collaborating with the poor...
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Food Insecurity Among Older Adults in India: A Study of Disparities Across the Inter-sectional Axes of Caste, Poverty, and Gender
In the last decade, lack of consumption data has made it difficult to study the question of “socio-economic and gender equity in food security” . A...
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Do economic globalization and the level of education impede poverty levels? A non-linear ARDL approach
This study empirically examines whether economic globalization reduces (enhances) the level of poverty in the top (bottom) globalized region by...
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Does it matter which poverty measure we use to identify those left behind? Investigating poverty mismatch and overlap for Botswana
This study offers the first attempt in Botswana and adds to the limited literature on poverty mismatch and overlaps in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the...
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Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time
Previous chapters focused on the total or average level of each thing, for individuals and communities, introducing the economic principles used to...
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Governmental support and multidimensional poverty alleviation: efficiency assessment in rural areas of Vietnam
This paper provides evidence on the poverty-eradication effect of governmental support, broadly categorised into human support and living support....
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Do unilateral trade preferences help reduce poverty in beneficiary countries?
This paper has investigated the utilization of non-reciprocal (or unilateral) trade preferences (NRTPs) provided by QUAD countries on poverty in...
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Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile
I propose an empirical framework to identify different degrees of vulnerability to poverty using two vulnerability lines that classify currently...
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Difficulties on the Road to Eradicating Hunger
More than 10,000 years have passed since humans began to grow food, but we still cannot provide enough food for everyone—690 million or so people are...
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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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Empowering Excluded Groups: a Multi-dimensional Analysis of China’s Anti-poverty Policies Through the Lens of Amartya Sen’s Capability Perspective
China’s persistent battle against poverty has evolved through comprehensive strategies to build a more equitable society. This study examines the...
