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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   +4 more
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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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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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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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Poverty Alleviation and Measures of Poverty in Indonesia

2016
The rise of poverty in Indonesia since the monetary crisis of 1997 has been of major concern to the Indonesian government, international agencies and scholars. In this paper we aim to identify the various dimensions of poverty and to discuss the problem of monitoring the different levels.
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The Effect of Poverty Alleviation Programmes on Poverty

1998
We now turn to the question of whether some kind of government intervention could be used to modify the incomes of the individuals that suffered welfare deteriorations during liberalization, to revert or at least to compensate for the losses. Similarly to the analysis of the last part of Chapter 3, our aim is to determine if any ways of spreading the ...
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The Psychology of Poverty Alleviation

2020
In order to design, enact, and protect poverty alleviation policies in developing countries, we must first understand the psychology of how the poor react to their plight, and not just the psychology of the privileged called upon for sacrifice. This book integrates social and psycho-dynamic psychology, economics, policy design, and policy-process ...
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