Literature review on poverty alleviation

Back to resources searchliterature review on poverty reduction strategies aimed at the very poor by zahra campbell-avenell in ad pdf (123.

Summarythe failure of traditional poverty reduction programs in achieving deeper outreach to the very poor is a growing concern, as evidenced by the united nation’s millennium development goals (mdgs) which envision extreme poverty to be halved by 2015.

Designing services to help the very poor often means taking into account the historic, sociopolitical and economic factors that contribute to the persistence of poverty.

Back to search ys out of poverty: outcomes associated with poverty alleviation in developing research brief #316sun, 12/13/2015authors: pierre biscayebrian hutchinsonmelissa lafayettec.

Leigh andersontravis reynoldsabstract: the literature on poverty’s causes and cures in developing countries posits a variety of contributing factors.

Most researchers acknowledge that a sustained exit from poverty is complex and no single causal pathway from poverty to non-poverty exists.

In this review, we present a summary framework for categorizing the various theorized pathways out of poverty, and evaluate the empirical evidence for which interventions and resulting outcomes are most frequently and most strongly associated with poverty alleviation.

We conducted a literature review on pathways out of poverty for low-income households in developing countries and identified and categorized general strategies and outcomes demonstrated to be empirically associated with poverty alleviation.

We organized the general strategies into four asset groups that could be targeted to alleviate poverty: human, natural, built / financial, and social / political.

Much of the literature presents positive results on poverty alleviation, but it is difficult to compare across studies because many of the studies were conducted in different countries and at different scales, and use a variety of outcome also epar technical report #333: financial pathways out of poverty: evidence from bangladesh and of research: literature reviewresearch topic category: sustainable agriculture & rural livelihoodsfinance & investmenthousehold well-being & equitypovertydevelopment finance & policygeographic focus: adable documents:  research brief results coding spreadsheet.