In 1950, approximately 1.8 billion lived in rural areas and subsequently, rural population
growth averaged 1.0 per cent per year, with the result that the rural population nearly …

This study uses the Census 2001 and 2011 as well as Community Survey 2007 and 2016
data to derive a multidimensional poverty index in South Africa for each year, before …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals require countries to halve poverty in all its
dimensions by 2020 but the dimensions are nowhere specified. Reflecting the United …

Transforming global food systems to promote food and nutritional security can help alleviate
both poverty and ill-health, and support sustainable development. Such transformations …

Composite indicators are one-dimensional measures of multidimensional phenomena.
Through the composite indicators, it is possible to have a single map of the different …

The study profiled and compared household multidimensional poverty status and its
determinants among urban and rural households in the Eastern Cape Province of South …

The persistently high level of poverty remains one of the main socio-economic issues in
South Africa since the democratic transition in 1994. Many South Africa studies focused on …

This paper analyses the trend and changes in Sri Lanka's multidimensional poverty before
the ethnic war in 2007, the transition through 2009 and after the war in 2012/13. Using …

In last years, the debate about social and economic development considered with
increasing interest the exposure to the risk of poverty rather than poverty itself. The risk for …

UNDP's 2030 agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasized gender
equality in augmenting human capital and alleviating poverty. For eradication of extreme …