Urban Poverty Reduction: A review of literature

Poverty and Place: A Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature

Poverty rates are highest in the most urban and most rural areas of the United States, and are higher in non-metropolitan (nonmetro) than metropolitan (metro) areas, yet rural poverty remains relatively obscured from mainstream political and popular attention. This fact has motivated considerable research by rural social scientists on the relationship between poverty and place generally, and ru...

Urban Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

The Department for International Development has funded this research programme, which it hopes will be of value to policy makers and practitioners. The facts presented and the views expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the policies of DFID. 2 Summary This paper is concerned with exploring the relationship between urban economic growth and poverty reduction. Its c...

ICTs and POVERTY: A LITERATURE REVIEW

ii Foreword These last few years have seen a surge of new initiatives devoted to reducing the digital divide. The G-8 DOT Force, the UN ICT Task Force and the World Economic Forum's work on digital inclusion are significant examples of the efforts going into promoting digital technologies for the development of poor countries. However, what is actually known about the impact of information and ...

Education and child poverty: A literature review

Drugs and poverty: A literature review