Introduction Nowadays, China and India are considered to be rapidly developing countries. At the same time, both countries are countries with the population reaching 1.5 billion people in China and …
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Social assistance and the dependency syndrome
Andrew Shepherd Dhana Wadugodapitiya Alice Evans 2011 Abstract This policy brief discusses: Social assistance is critical to counter the insecurity and vulnerability experienced by …
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Maternal Health, Child Well-being and Intergenerationally Transmitted Chronic Poverty: Does Women’s Agency Matter?
Sharifa Begum Binayak Sen 2005 Abstract This paper is about interconnections between women's empowerment and maternal health, on the one hand, and the health of children and the escape probability …
About chronic poverty
Nearly half a billion people are trapped in chronic poverty – poverty they experience over many years, often over their entire lives, and commonly pass poverty on to their children. Those living in …
Progressive social change
Social and political action that directly challenges the social orders that perpetuate chronic poverty. CPRC research emphasises that the chronically poor are constrained structurally rather …
Strategies for eradicating poverty in LDCs: Findings from research
10:15 AM to 12:30 PM Istanbul Congress Centre, Room Uskudar 2 Overseas Development Institute Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Laboratoire Paupérisation et …
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