Empowerment Strategies and Poverty Reduction in Bayelsa State: A Non-Parametric Approach

Economic Empowerment of Women and Fertility Behaviour in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

This study investigated the role of women’s economic empowerment on fertility behaviour using Ogbia Local Government Area in Bayelsa State as a case study. The study sought to know how different women’s economic empowerment indicators can affect different fertility behaviour. The Quality-Quantity theory and Feminist patriarchal theory served as the theoretical framework for the study. The sampl...

Neoliberalism and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

It is conventional wisdom both that during the past two decades, Africa was ‘marginalised’ by globalisation and that the Bretton Woods Institutions’ strategies for stabilisation and recovery often produced neither. As recent solutions, three African presidents have proposed a ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (Nepad, launched in 2001), and the World Bank and IMF are promoting ‘Poverty ...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran

A new non-parametric approach for suppliers selection

In this paper we propose a simple non-parametric model for multiple crite-ria supplier selection problem. The proposed model does not generate a zeroweight for a certain criterion and ranks the suppliers without solving the modeln times (one linear programming (LP) for each supplier) and therefore allowsthe manager to get faster results. The methodology is illustrated using anexample.

A Non-Parametric Microsimulation Approach to Assess Changes in Inequality and Poverty

This paper presents a non-parametric microsimulation methodology for assessing the determinants of changes in income inequality and poverty. One great advantage of this method over alternatives is that it is not very demanding in terms of modelling labour supply and household behaviour while still providing a plausible link between changes in overall labour market conditions and the full househ...