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Poverty

Climbing the ladder: poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Vietnam

Poverty in Vietnam continues to fall, particularly amongst ethnic minorities, who saw their rate of poverty decline significantly by 13 percentage points, the largest decline in the past decade, says a new World Bank report.

Publication Date: 
05/04/2018
The World Bank
Tags:
Poverty, Rural Poverty, Economy, Unemployment, Agriculture, Vietnam, Minorities
Poverty

Resilience and sustainable poverty escapes in rural Kenya

Official poverty figures for Kenya put poverty incidence at 36% in 2015/16 – a reduction in poverty of 11 percentage points since 2005/06 – however major factors remain to be overcome to further improve the translation of growth to poverty reduction.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2018
Lucy Scott, Robert Miller, Marta Eichsteller, & et al
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Tags:
Poverty, Rural Poverty, Kenya, Africa
Agriculture

Long march for livelihood

The BJP needs to think beyond farm loan waivers to address intensifying rural unrest. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
17/03/2018
Economic and Political Weekly
53
11
8
Tags:
Farmers, Agriculture, Maharashtra, Political Parties, Subsidies, Rural Poverty, Debt, Landless, Tribals, Forest Rights Act 2006
Economy

Too little, too late - Apathy towards the rural sector

The last budget of the Modi government comes against the backdrop of severe agrarian and rural distress. It is also the last opportunity to undo the damage caused to the rural economy by this government in the last four years. While the government has finally acknowledged the gravity of the situation, its response has been limited to empty rhetoric without any financial commitment. Going by the past record of the government, it is clear that it is serious neither in its commitment nor in its intent.

Publication Date: 
03/03/2018
Himanshu
Economic and Political Weekly
53
9
25-30
Tags:
Rural Habitat, Budget, India, Economy, Debt, Agriculture, Statistics, Farmers, Rural Poverty, Droughts, Conflicts
Economy

Transformation and diversification of the rural economy in Asia

This paper examines the transformation and diversification of the rural economy in Asia, focusing on the role and importance of the rural non-farm economy and employment in economic transformation and related diversification of employment and income opportunities for rural communities.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2018
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Tags:
Economy, Rural Development, Unemployment, GDP, Asia, India, Rural Poverty, Agriculture
Economy

How does government microfinance impact the rural poor? - Evidence from Madhya Pradesh

While microfinance companies have been studied and there is a growing consensus that they exclude the poorest, the impact of government microfinance programmes is relatively less understood. The National Rural Livelihoods Mission, which aims to reduce rural poverty by organising women into self-help groups, building capacity and providing access to microcredit is evaluated through a survey of 2,615 households in five districts of Madhya Pradesh. The focus is on four key questions. Who benefits and who gets left out? What is the pattern of household investment priorities?

Publication Date: 
30/12/2017
Sandeep Tambe, Suprava Patnaik, Jigyasa Bisaria & et al
Economic and Political Weekly
52
52
81-87
Tags:
Rural Poverty, Finance, Madhya Pradesh, Women, National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), India, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Landless, Statistics
Agriculture

Revisiting investments and subsidies to accelerate agricultural income and alleviate rural poverty in India

Examine temporal and spatial trends in public and private expenditure on agriculture in India, and its welfare effects in terms of agricultural growth and mitigation of rural poverty.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2017
Seema Bathla, P. K. Joshi, Anjani Kumar
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Tags:
Agriculture, Rural Poverty, India, Subsidies, Finance, GDP
Agriculture

Pulses for nutrition in India: changing patterns from farm to fork

India, a country with high concentrations of poor and malnourished people, long promoted a cereal-centric diet composed of subsidized staple commodities such as rice and wheat to feed its population of more than a billion. Today, however, dietary patterns are changing.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2017
Devesh Roy, P. K. Joshi, Raj Chandra
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Tags:
Nutrition, India, Food Security, Rural Poverty, Agriculture, Consumption Patterns, Trade, Public Distribution System (PDS)
Poverty

Income inequality trends in sub-Saharan Africa: divergence, determinants, and consequences

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) underscore the need to address broad inequalities in their quest to ‘leave no-one behind.’ Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences is a groundbreaking United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) study tha

Publication Date: 
21/09/2017
UNDP
Tags:
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Poverty, Economy, Rural Poverty, Agriculture, Africa, Human Rights, Industry, Urbanisation, Population Trends
Poverty

Poverty still high in Ghana - UNICEF report

A report released by UNICEF has revealed that even though Ghana has been able to eradicated extreme hunger and poverty, the situation of general poverty is still high in rural areas.

Publication Date: 
17/07/2017
Ghana Web (Ghana)
Tags:
Poverty, Ghana, UNICEF, Rural Poverty, Africa

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