Malnutrition has long been recognized as a consequence of poverty. It is also increasingly clear that it is also a cause of poverty. Poverty, which has degraded human lives for centuries, has shown dramatic reduction in the 20 century. Economic growth has therefore been a powerful means to eradicate poverty, raise productivity and incomes of poor people, improve nutrition and expand opportuniti...

T his study investigates the impact of poverty, which is the direct effect of recent economic changes, on Iranians mental health to shed more light on the poverty and mental health nexus in developing countries. For the purpose of this study, we examine the existence of a possible association between poverty and mental health in urban districts of Iran by applying a double hurdle app...

from the perspective of rural development experts, organize small enterprise, s (ses), is a strategy for empowering villagers, especially poor women's and rural women heads of household. hundreds of ses by women heads of household has been launched in iran. this research has been done to evaluate the effects of ses on women's economic empowerment of rural women heads of household in t...

The review highlights the poverty alleviation programmes of the government in the post-economic reform era to evaluate the contribution of these programmes towards reducing poverty in the country. The poverty alleviation programmes are classified into (i) self-employment programmes; (ii) wage employment programmes; (iii) food security programmes; (iv) social security programmes; and (v) urban p...

The goal of this paper is to identify the sources of income, positional and poverty dynamics among Venezuelan households in the late nineties. The paper answers two fundamental questions: What are the factors associated with changes in income, relative position and poverty status among Venezuelan households in the late nineties? Are there relevant differences in these factors depending on wheth...

A well-presented poverty profile can be immensely useful in assessing how economic change is likely to affect aggregate poverty, even though the profile typically just uses basic techniques such as tables and graphs. Some tables show the poverty rate for each group, for example, by level of education of household head, or by region of the country. It is good practice to show the confidence inte...