In 1996, the central authorities held the National Conference on Development-driven Poverty Allevia- tion, further clarifying the steadfast commitment to the goal of being able to provide adequate food and clothing for the impoverished people by the end of the 20th century and confirming the shift...
FIGURE 15.4 Progress on a global scale. The numbers in this figure are averages for all the countries reporting the relevant information, and these countries contain the vast majority of the world’s people. As the figure shows, dramatic gains in health and education have been made in the la...
This paper analyses the impact of the poverty alleviation relocation (PAR) program on rural household income and evaluates the heterogeneous income effects of various relocation modes, based on a panel dataset of relocated...
Likely after 2020, the relative poverty line based on income distribution will become the norm for poverty identification. Yet, during the transition period, the poverty line should comprise a floating income range and divers...
against poverty. After eight years of continuous struggle, all rural poor were lifted out of poverty, absolute poverty was eliminated, regional poverty in general was solved, and a full victory was secured against poverty. To consolidate the fruit of poverty eradication, China embarked on a new ...
But there is limited evidence at the global scale on how people’s exposure to harmful air pollution interacts with poverty and how this pollution burden is distributed across and within low- and middle-income countries. This is often due to a lack of socioeconomic data with high spatial ...
This study suggests several theoretical contributions. Firstly, this study expands the study context in the current tourism discourse. Although Covid-19 had a disastrous effect on the sex tourism industry on a global scale, this study is one of the first studies in Thailand that provided insights...
found this to increase global emissions by 2.8% (ref. 10), 1.6–2.1% (ref. 9) and 1.9% (ref. 8). Using a 0% poverty reduction target is not meaningful in our framework because it makes the growth needed to end extreme poverty dependent on the lowest-income households in the ...
Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature, By Diana Mitlin and David Satterhwaite Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South, By David Satterthwaite and Diana MitlinNo abstract is available for this item.doi:10.1080/00220388.2016.1202886Colin McFarlane...
Poverty is both an individual concern as well as a broader social problem. At the individual or household level, not being able to make ends meet can lead to a range of social, physical, and mental issues. At the societal level, high poverty rates can be a damper oneconomic growthand be...