Poverty is a significant social problem, affecting how individuals live and the resources available to them. For children, poverty represents a chronically suboptimal developmental environment as much as it reflects a state of economic stress. Neuroimaging techniques permit the non-invasive investigation of human brain development in adverse conditions such as poverty. Brain imaging has contrib...

The Department for International Development has funded this research programme, which it hopes will be of value to policy makers and practitioners. The facts presented and the views expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the policies of DFID. 2 Summary This paper is concerned with exploring the relationship between urban economic growth and poverty reduction. Its c...

'Wholesome Nutrition' is a concept of sustainable nutrition that was developed at the University of Giessen in the 1980s. In this concept, health and the ecologic, economic, social and cultural dimensions of nutrition are equally important. In 1992 at the UN-Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro the definition of 'Sustainable Development' comprised the dimensions environme...

D OF COUNTRIES around the world have suffered civil conflicts in the past few decades, with the highest concentration in Sub-Saharan Africa. The humanitarian consequences have been staggering: at least 3 million civilian deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (the former Zaire) civil war, and millions of other deaths in Sudan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Angola, Somalia, Uganda, Mozambique,...

Poverty alleviation is one of the most difficult challenges facing any country in the developing world, where, on the average, majority of the population is considered poor. Evidences in Nigeria shows that the number of those in poverty has continued to increase and Borno state was acknowledged to be at the forefront. Governments and institutions have the capacity to enhance both the viability ...

In this paper we develop a methodology to estimate the interrelationships of economic growth, increases in income transfe~s, and reduction of poverty over the past fifteen years. The basic question we wish to address is the importance of increases in market incomes relative to income transfers in reducing poverty. Models previously used to project poverty rates have not been specified in such a...