To realize efficient and sustainable poverty alleviation, this study firstly investigated the identification of multidimensional relative poverty, then explored relevant alleviation pathways. Poverty levels in 31 provinces including autonomous regions municipalities China were identified at county level using average nighttime light index (ANLI), development (CMDI), a method combining standards...

Variations in aggregate poverty indices ca be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the welfare distances between those poor of initially unequal welfare status, and/or to emerging disparities in welfare among those poor of initially similar welfare status. This note uses a general cost-of-inequality approach that decomposes the total change in poverty into a sum of ind...

International development institutions appear to accept the role of business in global development challenges such as poverty alleviation. In 2003 the World Bank was reportedly ‘convinced’ that the private sector has a role to play in the fight against poverty (Wolfensohn 2003, p.19). The 2008 ‘Business and the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) report highlights a consensus within the United...

In Gambia, women groups are the core of developmental activities. The role of women in micro financing for poverty alleviation has long been recognized as vital approach to household welfare. Microfinance generally refers to the provision of financial services (e.g. savings, credit, insurance) to the poor especially women who normally do not have easy access to formal financial institutions. In...

(ISHRAT HUSAIN) Most of the attention on Islamic finance has so far been focused on the regulatory framework, products and services offered, comparability with conventional finance, risk management characteristics, Shariah compliance, and expansion and penetration issues. Very little work has been done to explore the unique features of Islamic finance for the larger good of the society particul...

AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center is an international not-for-profit organization committed to ensuring the world's food security through research, development, and training. This informal series includes papers prepared for major symposia (proceedings of which may not appear for 1 or 2 years), important statements of speeches, selected seminar papers, or preliminary papers that require rapid ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present challenges and opportunities of e-government implementation in South Africa with special reference to service delivery and implications for libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an in-depth literature review from government documents, presidential state of the nation addresses, global and nation reports on e-government, ...

This paper is concerned with issues of measurement of poverty rates among the elderly population and with the alleviation of that poverty by means of shared living arrangements. Specifically, we estimate effects of taking account of assets as well as income, of including in income government subsidies on food, rent, and household energy, and of setting higher poverty thresholds. The effects of ...