Households affected by HIV/AIDS bear a substantial burden of illness and death, and this is associated with more severe poverty. Many affected households rely heavily on social welfare grants, which imply that government will in future years be faced with increasing claims. Affected households also spend less on food than non-affected households. In the longer run, this may contribute to malnut...

This is a summary of the report of an expert group meeting on resource mobilization for poverty eradication in the least developed countries held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 19 and 20 January 2004. The first part of the report provides an overview of the current challenges faced by the LDCs in reducing the high rates of widespread poverty. The second part discusses innovative ...

Ethiopia is an ancient country bordered by Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea. The mainly rural and predominantly young population of 80 million is expected to surpass 100 million by 2020. These demographics, along with decades of political turmoil and environmental degradation caused by overfarming, have resulted in widespread poverty and a dual burden of disease, both infectious and chronic, ...

In 2006, 42 years after President Johnson proclaimed war on poverty, the rate of poverty according to the official measure was 12.3 percent, about the same as it was in the late-1960s. A poverty measure that incorporates additional income sources shows somewhat lower poverty, 11.4 percent, but if a relative measure (that incorporates changes in the standard of living over time) is used, poverty...

Applied economists are often interested in studying trends in important economic indicators, such as inequality or poverty, but comparisons over time can be made impossible by changes in data collection methodology. We describe an easily implemented procedure, based on inverse probability weighting, that allows to recover comparability of estimated parameters identified implicitly by a moment c...

The financial crisis of 1997-1998 in East and Southeast Asia has raised questions about the sustainability of some hitherto admired modes of poverty reduction. But this paper argues that there remain important lessons to learn from Asia’s great ascent out of poverty since the Second World War. It remains important that well before the setback struck, much of this area had eliminated food povert...

ibn nabatah, one of the most popular poets in the mamluk period is compared with his contemporaries. in most issues, language is open to complain in his poems on various subjects, such as life, death, poverty and infectious diseases investigated note this article explains ibn nabatah poverty in food, housing, clothing and supplies, which the compositions and methods tailored to the tragic and s...

In this paper we use a multidimensional framework to characterise child poverty in the UK. We examine the interdependencies amongst the di¤erent dimensions of multidimensional poverty, and the relationship of multidimensional poverty with income poverty. We also explore the links between multidimensional poverty, income poverty, and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development. Our …nding...

OBJECTIVE To study the magnitude and direction of city-level racial and ethnic differences in poverty and education to characterise health equity and social determinants of health in California cities. DESIGN We used data from the American Community Survey, United States Census Bureau, 2006-2010, and calculated differences in the prevalence of poverty and low educational attainment in adults ...