We analyze the subjective perceptions of poverty in Madagascar in 2001 and their relationship to objective poverty indicators. We base our analysis on survey responses to a series of subjective perception questions. We extend the existing empirical methodology for estimating subjective poverty lines on the basis of categorical consumption adequacy questions. Based on this methodology we calcula...

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy prying eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car? An...

he World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty identifies three priority areas for poverty reduction: increasing opportunity, enhancing empowerment, and improving security. Opportunity makes markets work for the poor and expands poor people’s assets. Empowerment makes state institutions work better for poor people and removes social barriers. Security helps poor people manage risk [30]....

abstract the oldest comic playwright from ancient world, whose works have survived and reached us, is aristophanes the greek. names of many comic playwrights are found during the 5th century b.c. in ancient greece; however, works of none of whom is survived virtually complete. thus, the only criterion for judging comedies of golden age of ancient greece is applied to the works of aristophanes. ...

Today's talk about any health issue is part of a wider web of neoliberal destructive processes of which all fall into the category of discriminating populations and their cultures, downgrading their right to life and violating their human dignity. Poor health, poverty stricken health systems and screaming epidemiological factors make just one more triangle of the successive visible consequences...