(Matthew 26:11) Is poverty intractable? Have all advanced, industrial countries failed to reduce poverty? We can learn more about the presumed intractability of poverty by comparing advanced industrial countries to learn whether any of them have experienced recent, substantial declines in child poverty. This is just the tack taken by Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak in their analysis of changes in ...

Nepal is dominated by rural areas and most of people are poverty ridden. Poverty in reflected low level income, literacy poor health status. also energy use. Like other developing countries, heavily dependent on traditional sources. The heavy dependency biomass energy, especially fuel wood, agriculture waste cattle dung, particularly has given rise not only to environmental degradation irrevers...

Obesity is a civilization disease and the proportion of people suffering from it continues to grow, especially in the developed countries. Number of obese people in Europe has increased threefold over the last 20 years. The paradox of obesity and poverty relationship is observed especially in the developed and developing countries. In developing countries, along with economic development and in...

The equally uncharacterized nature of government role in Sub Saharan African (SSA) region on the issue of poverty reduction have surged the modest research of this study. The issue on poverty is a continuous cause and need remedies so much and fast. This study examined the effect of fiscal policy on poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1999 to 2016. Pool Mean Group (PMG) was employed to...

There is a seemingly widespread view that inequality should not be a concern in countries striving to fight absolute poverty. Although inequality may well be high or rising in some developing countries, this increase is seen as the unavoidable by-product of the economic growth needed to reduce poverty. The message for policy is that poor countries—including their poor—need not worry too much ab...

• Although states with rebounding economies have experienced, on average, larger declines in poverty, this economic effect accounts for only a minority of the statelevel change in poverty (since the recession). There is much that is known about poverty in the United States. It is well known that the United States has more poverty than most other equally well-off countries.1 It is well known tha...

Assessing the world’s progress against poverty calls for frequent and careful measurements, using household surveys and price data. Fortunately, the task of measuring poverty is becoming easier, and the results are probably getting more accurate over time. The best data for assessing progress against poverty come from surveys of the living standards of nationally representative samples of house...

At any positive rate of growth, the higher the initial inequality, the lower the rate at which income-poverty falls. It is possible for inequality to be sufficiently high to result in rising poverty, despite good underlying growth prospects at low inequality.