China’s Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction Policy is an essential requirement for alleviating poverty and guaranteeing the basic needs of people who live at the bottom of society and are unable to obtain a source of ...

This article holds that poverty is multidimensional in nature, and that the ways to measure it and the policies to fight it are determined by how it is defined. After reviewing various definitions, the article notes that ...

International discussion and debate on poverty and poverty reduction in low- and middle-income countries has been deservedly dominated by a focus on poverty trends and by concerns over the relative effectiveness of ...

Theme of poverty has come to occupy a prominent place on the national and international political agenda, and various governments, including Brazilians, have expanded programs and poverty reduction policies, at least in ...

This paper evaluates the status of poverty in Quintana Roo, Mexico for the period 2010- 2016. The research question that supports this paper is whether the decrease in extreme poverty and poverty that the federal government ...

This paper assesses the importance of agriculture poverty reduction, largely through its impact on overall economic growth, drawing on evidence from Latin America and other developing regions. The econometric evidence ...

Examines the characteristics of poverty in the region and the social policy environment needed to drive the process of poverty reduction. Points to the need for a new perspective on poverty that emphasises both qualitative ...

The author argues that the effectiveness of poverty alleviation instruments largely depends on how poverty is defined. The aim of reducing absolute poverty chiefly entails a discussion of growth, historically the main ...