There is widespread conviction that for growth to be pro-poor it has to result in productive and decent employment, since it is the only sustainable way to reduce poverty. Yet though some analytical work has been done to critically examine the linkage of growth, employment and poverty reduction, empirically little has been done, more specifically in the context of servicebased developing econom...

The study aims to measure the performance of national zakat management and its impact on poverty alleviation in Indonesia for 2021 period. National Zakat Index (N.Z.I.) 2.0, formed based macro micro dimensions, is used management. General Poverty (GPI), with headcount index, income gap ratio, gap, sen F.G.T. B.A.Z.N.A.S. Welfare (B.W.I.), indicators line, had kifayah. Nisab result show (1) peri...

Poverty and other forms of inequity undermine individual and population health and retard development. Although absolute poverty has reportedly declined in recent years, research suggests that relative poverty or the gap between the rich and poor within and between countries has been exacerbated over this same period. There is growing concern about the feminization of poverty, and the impact gl...

The pervasive income-achievement gap has been attributed in part to deficiencies in executive functioning (EF). The development of EF is related to children's planning ability, an aspect of development that has received little attention. Longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study of early child care show that early childhood poverty (1 and 24 month...

this paper examines the relationship between growth and poverty in iran during the first five-year plan. in other words, effort has been made to show whether economic growth in iran helped poor people or not. for this purpose the concept of pro poor growth has been analyzed with application to the economy of iran, both in urban and rural areas and in the country as a whole. we use an indicator ...

BACKGROUND Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-poor gap in childhood undernutrition have not been explored. This study aims to quantify the contribution of factors that explain the poor/non-poor gap in underweight, stunting, and wasti...

Globally, more than 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty on one dollar a day.1 Though much progress has been made, reducing poverty remains a colossal task (World Bank 2000, p. 17). The case of the Republic of Korea in this circumstance is worth mentioning. The Republic of Korea has achieved remarkable socio-economic development and reduced extreme poverty, which had plagued t...

BACKGROUND Better understanding of the trends and disparities in health at old age in terms of life expectancy will help to provide appropriate responses to the growing needs of health and social care for the older population in the context of limited resources. As a result of rapid economic, demographic and epidemiological changes, the number of people aged 60 and over in Vietnam is increasing...

Conventional poverty measures have long been criticized as a poor gauge of quality life. Household-level income or expenditure data used in these are silent on intrahousehold inequalities and capture means to an end rather than outcomes opportunities individuals face. This article constructs multidimensional index (MPI) address problems. It calculates for Turkey four equally weighted dimensions...