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  1. Full article: Defining the characteristics of poverty and their ...

    Poverty “is one of the defining challenges of the 21st Century facing the world” (Gweshengwe et al., 2020, p. 1). In 2019, about 1.3 billion people in 101 countries were living in poverty (United Nations Developm…

  2. Programs, Opportunities, and Challenges in Poverty Reduction: A ...

    Using thematic analysis, this study found that poverty alleviation programs are implemented in urban and rural areas and through women's empowerment. In addition, social, …

  3. (PDF) Poverty: A Literature Review of the Concept ...

    Therefore, the objective of this review was to give an overview of concepts, measurements, causes and the way forward on poverty. A systematic literature review was …

  4. Poverty, not the poor

    American poverty research has focused on the problem of persons and the poor, not poverty. The field has devoted disproportionate attention to behavioral explanations fixing the poor, emotive compassion …

  5. Full article: Rethinking Child Poverty

    A child-standpoint on childhood poverty would enable, indeed demand, research based on three principles. First, genuine engagement with children living in poverty to establish a responsive research agenda and a …

  6. A decades-long decline in extreme poverty has gone …

    Factors ranging from COVID-19 to Russia’s war in Ukraine are increasing extreme poverty. Finding effective solutions starts with agreeing on how to measure what poverty means.

  7. Full article: The impact of poverty cycles on economic research ...

    The outbreak of poverty crises has a certain cyclicality, and the development of economic research may react to poverty cycles. To validate this view, we take the United …

  8. Poverty, Policy and the Poor

    Extreme poverty has increased from 8.3% to 9.2%, pushing an additional 93 million people into extreme poverty. Workers living in extreme poverty increased from 6.7% in 2019 to 7.2% in 2020, adding 8 million workers …

  9. Current research trends in child poverty and psychological …

    Figure 1 reveals a significant increase in article research on poverty and resilience over the last 4 years. There were 137 (12.86%) studies in 2020, 144 (13.52%) in 2021, 149 …

  10. Multidimensional poverty: an analysis of definitions, measurement …

    Three main research questions were formulated to select and to analyze the studies, related to the definition of multidimensional poverty, the introduction of methods to …