Climate induced Poverty: Impediment to Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries

Causes of Poverty in Developing Countries

Urban Poverty and HealtH in develoPing CoUntries

ABout the Author MaRk R. MontgoMeRy is a professor in the economics department at Stony Brook University and a senior associate with the Population Council's Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program. His current research interests include the links between poverty and demographic behavior in the cities of developing countries; measurement of poverty and poverty dynamics using proxy variables; and the...

Urban Transport and Poverty in Developing Countries

Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Developing Countries

Extensions to DFID Report No.7946 Lin Lin, Victoria McKenzie, Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle * Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP ** School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC 1E 7HX and Univer...

Temporal Poverty Prediction In Developing Countries

Poverty reduction is the first of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations hopes to achieve by 2030 [1]. A prerequisite to reducing poverty levels though is understanding how wealth levels are currently distributed throughout a region and how they might change in the future. Using both current information and forecasts, governments and NGOs can then effectively allocate t...