Over the past two decades, conditional cash transfer (CCT) has become one of the most widespread approaches to social development in Latin America. Spurred in large part by the evident and immediate success of Mexico’s CCT initiative, a multitude of countries began to invest heavily in this strategy hoping to reduce poverty and inequality in the short and long run. This paper examines the relat...

Based on the established association between child poverty and youth violence trends, this study employs both macroand micro-level research strategies to determine whether the recent changes in macroeconomic conditions and welfare reform policies that influenced child poverty trends throughout most of the 1990’s and the early 2000’s also influenced trends in youth violent victimization, and the...

In the last two decades of the 20th century, recurring fiscal and financial crises, unsatisfactory growth, and deep and persistent inequality endangered development prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since then, financial stability and growth have improved, but inequality and economic and social exclusion remain key areas of concern; they are, arguably, the main challenges to b...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between access to modern energy services and human development in India over a decade. We estimate an index of development, multidimensional poverty index, confidence index. Empirical result shows that is quite widespread most states spite progress made reducing same during study period. States with higher level are having lower implying strong nega...

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 made fundamental changes in the federal system of public assistance in the United States, and specifically limited the eligibility of immigrant households to receive many types of aid. Many states chose to protect their immigrant populations from the presumed adverse effects of welfare reform by offering state-funded as...

Tolulope Olayemi Oyekale Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria ABSTRACT Poverty reduction is the goal of all rural development programs embarked upon by Nigerian government. This is important because poverty is a critical problem in Nigeria and the rural areas are mostly affected. This study examined the impact of government programs on the multidimensional poverty of ...

AIM To analyze the main indicators of income inequality, objective and subjective poverty, material deprivation, and the role of public social transfers in the reduction of poverty in 15 old and 10 new member states of the European Union (EU), undergoing post-communist socio-economic transition, as well as in Croatia, a candidate EU country. METHOD Objective poverty rates, poverty reduction r...

Using the Households, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, this study examines the joint dynamics of health and poverty of Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a better estimation of the causal relation between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality runs both ways and the relationship could ...