Business Education: A Tool for Poverty Alleviation in Enugu State

Income-generating Programmes for Poverty Alleviation through Non-formal Education

Assessment of Poverty Alleviation Strategies Used By Rural Farming Households in Ondo State, Nigeria

Poverty has plagued many rural farming household in Nigeria. Despite several approaches adopted by Government to ameliorate poverty among its citizenry, the number of people living in impoverished condition has continued to rise. This study therefore aimed at assessing the poverty alleviation strategies used among farming household in Ondo State, Nigeria. A validated interview schedule and ques...

Forests and Poverty Alleviation

Poverty can be defined as a pronounced deprivation of well-being related to lack of material income or consumption, low levels of education and health, vulnerability and exposure to risk, no opportunity to be heard and powerlessness (World Bank 2001:15). Thus, poverty alleviation can be defined as successfully lessening deprivation of well-being. In this regard, forest-based poverty alleviation...

Poverty alleviation = good medicine.

Health workers can have a dramatic impact on malnutrition and disease simply by brushing up on the qualifying criteria for welfare grants and encouraging patients to apply. The importance of doctor intervention emerged last month when the SAMJ spoke to welfare officials, social workers and educationists about the problems besetting the social security system. Cati Vawda, director of the Childre...

The Evaluation of Qard-al-Hasan as a Microfinance Approach in Poverty Alleviation Programs

Different countries have implemented various methods in their poverty elimination programs. Redistribution policies, financing low income groups, subsidizing, enhancing the capabilities of the poor, and… are among the traditional policies for poverty elimination programs. The study of concept of poverty is always one of the most important considerations in Islamic thoughts. Islamic Shariat wit...