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Intro -- POVERTY IN THE U.S.: TRENDS, ISSUES AND MEASUREMENTS -- POVERTY IN THE U.S.: TRENDS, ISSUES AND MEASUREMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INCOME, POVERTY, AND HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: 2009 -- INTRODUCTION -- SUPPLEMENTAL POVERTY MEASURE -- STATE AND LOCAL ESTIMATES OF INCOME, POVERTY, AND HEALTH INSURANCE -- INCOME IN THE UNITED STATES -- Highlights -- DYNAMICS OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING -- Household Income -- Race and Hispanic Origin -- Age of Householder -- Nativity -- Region15 -- Residence -- Income Inequality -- Equivalence-Adjusted Income Inequality -- Work Experience and Earnings -- Per Capita Income33 -- POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES37 -- Highlights -- Impact of the 2007 Economic Downturn -- Race and Hispanic Origin -- Age -- Nativity -- Region -- Residence -- Work Experience -- Families -- Depth of Poverty -- Ratio of Income to Poverty -- Income Deficit -- Alternative/ Experimental Poverty Measures -- National Academy of Sciences (NAS)- Based Measures and Estimates of the Effect of Benefits and Taxes -- CPS Table Creator II -- HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES -- Highlights -- Type of Coverage -- Race and Hispanic Origin -- Age -- Nativity -- Economic Status -- Work Experience -- Children's Health Insurance Coverage -- Region -- Residence -- APPENDIX A. ESTIMATES OF INCOME -- How Income is Measured -- Recessions -- Recessions -- Cost-of-Living Adjustment -- ANNUAL AVERAGE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX RESEARCH SERIES (CPI-U-RS) USING CURRENT METHODS ALL ITEMS: 1947 TO 2009 -- APPENDIX B. ESTIMATES OF POVERTY -- How Poverty is Calculated -- APPENDIX C. ESTIMATES OF HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE -- Quality of Health Insurance Coverage Estimates -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES: 2008 -- SUMMARY -- TRENDS IN POVERTY1 -- DEFINITION OF POVERTY5

China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen's research compares four approaches to poverty assessment: China's official poverty identification method, the participatory approach to poverty assessment, the monetary approach, and use of multidimensional poverty indicators. Each of these is applied to the same population of households to identify the poor in rural Wuding County, Yunnan Province. The analysis shows that there is in fact very little overlap of households identified as poor by the various means, and that choice of approach does matter in the outcome of who is identified as poor. This has implications at the theoretical, methodological, and policy levels. Lu discusses these in detail, concluding that at present, there is a need to shift away from poverty reduction strategies that narrowly emphasize income generation activities, as these are often short-term efforts. Instead, the focus should move towards a broader combination of short-term and long-term strategies to break poverty's inter-linked structural causes.

Poverty is a major social problem in Nigeria. Poverty in Nigeria remains significant despite Nigeria's high economic growth. Nigerians rank among the lowest income earners in the world. Despite the fact that associated poverty carried some associated similarities locally and internationally, there is always a differing measure of yardstick. Locally in Nigeria, the northern region is considered to be poorer as compared to other parts of the country. The thrust of this paper is to x-ray poverty in Nigeria with particular focus to the North using the almajiris as a tool. The methodology employed is the use of secondary sources and observation since the authors have fair experience of the area. After taking a look at the causes and effects of poverty in Northern Nigeria, the paper suggested ways of tackling poverty in Northern Nigeria with the conclusion that every part of the country is rich. Poor management of God given resources, bad governance and corruption are responsible for the present state of the country and the North in particular. There is need for the north to take proactive measures to tackle poverty in partnership with the government and non-governmental organisations. Â