AUTHOR STATISTICS

Sarath W. Kotagama

 It has been found that at  present women entrepreneurs  constitute less than 10% of  the total business entrepreneurs  in Bangladesh whereas women in advanced market economies own more than 25% of all businesses.

Martin Ravallion

Illustrative calculations indicate that we are seeing a falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the developing world. While fewer people are poor by the global absolute standard, more are poor by the country-specific relative standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.

Poverty and Social Exclusion

he fight against poverty and social exclusion is at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. With more than 120 million people in the EU in 2008 at risk of poverty or social exclusion, EU leaders have pledged to bring at least 20 million people out of poverty and social exclusion by 2020.

Jhonathan Partington

Matt Nesvisky

The evidence strongly suggests that export growth and incoming foreign investment have reduced poverty everywhere from Mexico to India to Poland. Yet at the same time currency crises can cripple the poor. In Indonesia, poverty rates increased by at least 50 percent after the 1997 currency crisis in that country, and the poor in Mexico have yet to recover from the pummeling of the peso in 1995.

Roy Katayama 

FAO

Inge Tvedten

The World Bank has adopted the (in)famous poverty line of US$1.90 a day. So, people with daily real incomes below this amount form part of the global poor – thankfully, now a diminishing group.

Eric Lamison-White

When the earnings functions of lone-mothers were calculated as if they were males, it showed that they would receive 36% more income if they were men, with race, age and education held equal.

“Has he heard about the term exploitation of workers and how workers despite their hard work have been denied the fruits of their labour. Does he know that only a miserable 9-10% of the Malaysian workers are organised in trade unions.”

 (Ramasamy Palanisamy 2017)

Adrian G. Aguilar 

Sabina Alkire

Anthony Bebbington

Child in the city

Childtrends 

CONEVAL 

Within the social rights space, the circumstances in Mexico are as follows: the highest incidence due to social deprivations in the population was in the access to social security indicator which amounted to 60.7 percent; in the access to health services it was 31.8 percent; with deprivation regarding access to food, 24.9 percent; with deprivation regarding basic services in the dwelling, 23.0 percent; with an educational gap, 20.6 percent and, finally, with deprivation regarding the quality and spaces of the dwelling, 15.2 percent at national level.

Jim Cox

Economics and Statistics Administration 

Poverties

Mark Gilthorpe

Tags: Analysis about poverty, Poverty around the world, Investigations of authorities about poverty