Preliminary and Incomplete. Please do not cite. Introduction There is worldwide agreement on poverty reduction as a key development policy goal; however there is little agreement on the definition of poverty. The definition of poverty is critical for successful poverty eradication strategies. Traditionally poverty was approached using univariate metrics, such as income or consumption expenditur...

This case study is on participants’ evaluation of a poverty reduction programme that is under implementation by two Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) within a suburb of Accra, Ghana’s capital city. Specifically, the study focused on assessment of participants’ views on the causes and dimensions of poverty as well as the impacts of certain on-going projects aimed at alleviating of poverty in ...

Previous research has shown that economic growth should help to reduce the rate of poverty. However, a number of recent studies find that the economic expansion of the 1980’s had no statistically significant effect on aggregate poverty. We show that a Fourier approximation provides a better empirical model of poverty than the standard linear model. It is noteworthy that the nonlinear specificat...

We’ve been asked to produce a brief and informal summary of an exchange between ourselves and Martin Ravallion, who is currently Acting Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. All of us agree, as Ravallion pointed out, that poverty is multidimensional. Our exchange concerned whether our group’s efforts to incorporate multiple dimensions into the very definition of who is po...

Surely one of the greatest achievements of the current phase of globalization has been the spurt of economic growth in countries that were desperately poor just a few decades ago and some of which, even now, carry huge burdens of poverty. This spurt in economic growth and the consumption growth that accompanied it have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and, concurrently, provided a gli...

Different countries have implemented various methods in their poverty elimination programs. Redistribution policies, financing low income groups, subsidizing, enhancing the capabilities of the poor, and… are among the traditional policies for poverty elimination programs. The study of concept of poverty is always one of the most important considerations in Islamic thoughts. Islamic Shariat wit...

This paper explores the effects of general and agricultural trade openness on economic freedom and alongside with the quality of institutions, on income and poverty. Recent cross-country data for over 200 nations in global regions were used to estimate equations for income, poverty and economic freedom. Economic freedom appears to have positive impacts on income levels, which together with good...