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Rethinking poverty alleviation: a ‘poverties’ approach

Development in Practice, 2008
This article argues that the practice of poverty alleviation is greatly limited by a vision of poverty that fails to capture the locally specific causes of and solutions to the challenges that threaten human well-being. This problematic vision of poverty takes real-world form in such initiatives as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.
Carr, Edward R., Carr, Edward R
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Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation

The Economic Journal, 1988
This paper formulates the problem of the optimal pattern of food subsidies in a general setting, where the objective is to minimize a class of poverty indices within the framework of the mo dern public finance theory. Taking explicit account of the budget con straint and preferences and technologies, the authors derive rules fo r retargetting food ...
Besley, Timothy J, Kanbur, S M Ravi
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Alleviating Poverty

Journal of the American Planning Association, 2000
Katherine Pennington's painting You're My Tenth Customer depicts a woman entrepreneur at work. Facilitating entrepreneurship among women through small loan programs is the focus of many of the pove...
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The Alleviation of Poverty

2017
Chapter 4 addressed the topic of the distribution of income in China and related this to the phenomenon of economic growth and sustainable economic development. The distribution of income can also affect the level of absolute and relative poverty within a country.
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Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework

Current Issues in Tourism, 2007
The past decade has seen an upsurge of interest from the governments and development organisations in a tourism-based approach to poverty alleviation. More specifically, poverty alleviation has been established as a major priority within the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) itself, as is evidenced by the launching of the concept of ST ...
Weibing Zhao, J. R. Brent Ritchie
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Rural Poverty and Approaches to Poverty Alleviation

1995
Abstract Poverty alleviation, and its eventual elimination, are central objectives of development. But there remains considerable doubt about how these objectives can be achieved in practice. In the 1990s poverty remains a pervasive problem in many developing countries, and—although by no means exclusively so—it is predominantly a ...
Roger C Riddell, Mark Robinson, John De Coninck, Ann Muir, Sarah White   +4 more
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The Quran and Poverty Alleviation

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2009
The Quran prohibits interest and encourages trade and charity as alternates. This article seeks guidance from the verses of the Quran and develops a theoretical model of charity-based Islamic microfinance institutions (MFIs), which can be used as an alternative approach to reduce poverty.
Kaleem, A, Ahmed, S
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Consumption Poverty Alleviation: The Role of Poverty Attribution and Attitude in Poverty Alleviation Product Purchase

Sustainable Development
ABSTRACT One approach to alleviate poverty is to identify and allow consumers to purchase poverty alleviation products (PAPs) from low‐income agricultural producers in rural areas. We explore whether consumers' attribution of the cause of poverty affects their purchase intentions for PAPs.
Tong Zhang, Qi Jiang, Wuyang Hu, Zhanguo Zhu   +3 more
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Poverty Alleviation Act: the Inevitable Product of the Development Law of Poverty Alleviation

2023
Poverty alleviation is a grand project involving the whole society, and is related to the development direction of socialism and the process of national modernization. It is the basic national policy and major strategic deployment of China to eliminate poverty and improve people’s livelihood under the new historical conditions.
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Urban poverty and urban poverty alleviation

Cities, 1989
Abstract Very poor people are likely to be found in greater numbers in cities than in rural areas by the end of the century. This article argues that casually employed wage workers are those who are likely to be most vulnerable, and that programmes including education and health care are needed to reduce their vulnerability. Whereas the encouragement
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