Poverty mapping in developing countries has become an increasingly important tool in the search for ways to improve living standards in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. Although the classical econometric methods provide information on the geographic distribution of poverty, they do not take into account the spatial dependence of the data and generally they do not consider...

Conventional wisdom tells us that poverty is an absolute measurable state of being, a lack of access to goods and services, and as such can be assessed by metrics and indices. Mohammed Yunus, founder of The Grameen Bank turns conventional wisdom on its head. For Grameen, poverty is a conceptual rather than spiritual lack. Poverty is in what we perceive. Recognizing this is a prerequisite for th...

With publication of the paper “A Position Statement on mental health in the post-2015 development agenda”, [1] we launch the first International Journal of Mental Health Systems thematic series, Global Mental Health and Development. The United Nations Millennium Declaration, [2] adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2000, set out “certain fundamental values” – freedom, equality, solid...

Preliminary and Incomplete. Please do not cite. Introduction There is worldwide agreement on poverty reduction as a key development policy goal; however there is little agreement on the definition of poverty. The definition of poverty is critical for successful poverty eradication strategies. Traditionally poverty was approached using univariate metrics, such as income or consumption expenditur...

The scope of this article is to conduct a critical analysis from the perspective of Public Health of the first item of the Rio +20 Summit agenda: "A green economy in the context of sustainable development and the eradication of poverty." Methodologically, the analysis was performed through two converging approaches: (a) argumentative - by means of a dialectical analysis of facts and reports pro...

In December 2001 a cross party motion on food poverty signed by 198 UK MPs gained its first reading in parliament. The Food Poverty (Eradication) Bill is now waiting to be read for a second time. Though this bill is a laudable attempt to introduce a policy designed to improve the nutrition of those with the lowest incomes and in the poorest places, it is an example of how some ideas become acce...

This paper describes the potential of aquaponic as a poverty eradication tool in Malaysia. Although Malaysia is recognized as a developed country, poverty is still occurring among Malaysian, especially from rural area. Therefore, aquaponic – a modern farming system is being introduced to benefit the low income family. Aquaponic is the term that described the synergistic combination of aquacultu...

Understanding the causes of poverty and identifying transformation characteristics is basis for achieving eradication. In order to clarify availability construction land assessment, this paper explores spatio-temporal synergy between urban built-up areas in Tibet. The following conclusions are drawn: (1) Tibetan counties have been growing from 2013 2019; (2) proportion with very low levels rela...

The study analyzes the impact of microfinance provided by Khushhali Microfinance Bank Limited (KMBL) for poverty reduction in district Sargodha. It explores explicitly sectors which credit usage is more helpful alleviation. For this purpose, we collected primary data 300 households from KMBL. findings revealed that played a vital role eradication. binary logistic regression implied males were l...