According to economic theory, well-being or utility depends on consumption. However, at the household level, total consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income, an income-based measure of well-b...

poverty can have spatial dimensions. while general figures might show the spatial pattern of poverty, there is a need for more detailed examination of this pattern. relying on simple figures of spatial patterns and ranking regions based on them might be misleading. this paper tries to apply spatial analysis methodsm, namely spatial autoregressive models to find out the impacts of space on the h...

Children exhibit significant variability in their poverty experiences and well-being through time, longitudinal realities that complicate the study of economic deprivation and adjustment in the early life course. Drawing on thirteen years of data from the Children of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, we examine how children's poverty histories predict latent growth curves of their...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is home to two-thirds of the world’s ultra-poor today. This paper offers current thinking on the structural causes of the spatially concentrated, persistent ultrapoverty that has plagued Africa for a generation and some key entry points for facilitating Africans’ escape from persistent ultra-poverty. The increased recognition of persistent ultra-poverty has rekindled lo...

This article explores some aspects of the representation poverty in development studies from an anthropological perspective. Starting from the history of the category of poverty as the central target for development policy, the article shows how the ways in which poverty is assessed not only have implications for the kinds of strategies adopted to address it but for theories about its causes. S...

Background: Knowledge regarding distribution and determinants of household food insecurity focusing on vulnerable groups is utmost important for ensuring food security, which is every nation prime agenda. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and determinants of household food insecurity among the tribal population of Purulia, West Bengal. Methods: A cross-sectional study was car...

1-introduction it is a long time that geography of poverty has entered the geographical literature and always geographers remember it as a bitter social reality that its effects and negative results are reflected in all parts of individual and social life. in iran, poverty has been a more economic concept and has been taken into consideration less than other aspects. in the case that we want to...

Perpetual poverty condition in India’s tribal regions has been explained through structural factors like breaking down of the forest-based livelihood systems, social as well as political alienation, and physical remoteness. The developmental processes tried to mitigate these disadvantages rather than correcting the basic discrimination faced by the communities. Notwithstanding these structural ...