biofuels boom and poor people’s access to land

. Dataset has been directly collected through in-house interviews. Main questions discussed here are: (1) Is microcredit targeted to poor people? (2) Has the poverty rate of the sample changed in last six months? and (3) What percentage of male vs. female clients is poor? We found an average poverty

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1 Most examinations of United States domestic antipoverty policy are inherently parochial, for they are based on the experiences of only our nation in isolation from the others. However, cross-national comparisons can also teach lessons about antipoverty policy. While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger persons, they differ dramatically in the extent to which they reach these goals. Nations also exhibit differences in the extent to which working age adults mix economic self-reliance (earned incomes), family support, and government support to avoid poverty. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database contains the information needed to construct comparable poverty measures for more than 30 nations. It allows comparisons of the level and trend of poverty and inequality across several nations, along with considerable detail on the sources of market incomes and public policies that shape these outcomes. We will highlight the different relationships between antipoverty policy and outcomes among several countries, and consider the implications of our analysis for research and for antipoverty policy in the United States. In doing so, we will draw on a growing body of evidence that evaluates antipoverty programs in a cross-national context (Banks et al. 2005). Many international bodies have publishes crossnational studies of the incidence of poverty in recent years, including the United Nations

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this paper summarizes what I see as the key priorities confronting the international community in general, and India more specifically, in making trade work for poor people. This will be particularly important in light of the current Doha round of WTO (World Trade Organization) trade negotiations

Poverty levels in Brazil present a remarkable spatial heterogeneity. The greatest proportions of poor people were observed in the rural parts of the Northeast and the North regions, especially for individuals with low levels of formal education. Migration from and to rural areas may have an impact