Poverty and global development Poverty and social inequality were the second most worrying issues to respondents. While poverty and inequality are still prominent,global poverty rates have been on a steady decline over the years. In 1994, nearly 64 percent of people in low-income countries and aro...
We have demonstrated a new class of poverty map that should improve over time through the inclusion of new reference data for calibration of poverty estimates and as improvements are made in the satellite observation of human activities related to economic activity and technology access. 展开 ...
With over 202 million, India has the highest number of people living in extreme poverty and exposed to unsafe PM2.5 levels, corresponding to 14.7 percent of its overall population. The 10 countries with the most people who are both living on less than $1.90 a day and exposed to unsafe PM...
Freyens: 2013, `Measuring Global Poverty: Why PPP Methods Matter'. Review of Economics and Statistics 95(3), 813-824.R. Ackland, S. Dowrick, and B. Freyens, Measuring global poverty: why PPP methods matter, Review of Economics and Statistics, 95 (2013), pp. 813-824.Ackland, R., ...
By using a longitudinal data-set from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study, the present study examines the poverty reduction effectiveness of public income transfers in South Korea from 1998 to 2011. Findings indicate that the average poverty rate fell from over 20% between 1998 and 2000, to...
Poverty Alleviation has long been a global issue. During your discussions about global poverty issues in recent years,have you noticed any changes in this field? :First of all,we should celebrate for the significant reduction of poverty in the world in recent years,especially in China which has...
Guest editorial: Poverty, development, and PEPFAR: A US strategy for combating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic Among the many activities spearheaded by this task force the Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development was implemented and will come to fruition this month.(5) Over 200 journals...
With the release of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative's Multidimensional Poverty Index data, I decided to create a global poverty map journal that shows how and where poverty impacts developing nations around the world. You can explore the Global Poverty Map Journal by clicking on...
1. The individual SDG targets include SDG 1.1 (eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere), SDG 2.3 (enhance agricultural productive capacity), SDG 3.9 (reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination), SDG 4.3 (...
Xu said that China is taking an approach, namely "Closing-Gap Experience Sharing in Foreign Aid", when offering assistance and experience in fighting against poverty to other countries. First, the shared experience is pragmatic, accessible, and in line with the development stage of the time and...