The Research on poverty Alleviation (REPOA) is a not-forprofit Non-Governmental Organisation registered in Tanzania in November, 1994. Its overall objective is to deepen the understanding of causes, extent, nature, rate of change and means of combating poverty in Tanzania. The specific objectives focus on development of local research capacity, development of poverty research network, enhancing...

Health, nutrition and population policies play a fundamental role in economic and human development and poverty alleviation. Better health outcomes of individuals and populations can contribute to economic growth, which in turn can contribute to better health and again have a positive impact on economic growth, and so on. The ultimate objective of World Bank work in Health, Nutrition and Popula...

Vocational Training is one of the crucial elements for generation that is going to be a part of skilled workforce of this world of work and to reduce the level of poverty.  It quickly enables a person to be a part of competitive workforce by enhancing their skills so that he may cope with the rapidly changing technological job and environment. The core objective of this study is to examine the ...

this paper used a general equilibrium model to evaluate the effects of adjustment polices. the model includes both demand and supply side equations. relationships concerning household and government income are also included in model. iterative three-stage least squares method is used-toestimatethe.model: then the mode/is used to simulate the effect of sevenaltemative policies on poverty and inc...

Small-scale fishers in Bangladesh face substantial risks due to their occupation and their geographical setting. Without any effective buffer against crises, recurring shocks and on-going risk exposure are major factors pushing fishers into poverty. Not all fishers experience these events in the same way, however, with some of them showing higher capacity to negotiate risks. In this study, we a...

Since the 2004 publication of C. K. Prahalad’s remarkably inouential The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Proats, the term “BoP” has become commonplace among development practitioners and corporations. This work argued that, rather than relying upon inefacient governments to provide the poor (i.e., the BoP) with necessary goods and services, the for-proat sector...

A growth model is used in the context of Sala-i-Martin’s definition of conditional convergence to assess the household income dynamics in segmented groups at the provincial level in the Philippines. There is a direct relationship between spending efficiency and income growth convergence across income groups. The lower income convergence rate among low income households can be attributed to thei...