... assessment conducted by UN WFP in December 2011 and January 2012 (WFP, 2012), many factors related to food insecurity, including poverty, lack of education and unsustainable livelihood activities (unskilled labor, collection of wood/grass), etc. Based on the above, the central theme discussed...

...: Professor Moazzem Hossain can be contacted at: m.hossain@griffith.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 India Poverty Rural Inequality Sanitation MDG The UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, under its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) programme included eight goals. Goal...

...Allam Ahmed; Amer Al‐Roubaie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess and evaluate the role of information and communication technologies as a proposed solution to reduce poverty in the Arab countries and therefore achieve sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach...

...Andrea Santiago; Fernando Roxas Purpose – Much of the resources for mitigating the impact of poverty found their way into new technologies or programs that aimed to provide energy access to the poor in the “bottom of the pyramid” (BOP). Thus billions have been spent and will be spent on projects...

...‐way analysis of variance, chi‐square ‘likelihood ratio’ tests, and descriptive statistics. The findings of the study provide evidence to the effect that poverty does not cause environmental degradation as the knowledge, attitude, and behaviour of the urban poor concerning solid waste management...

...; globalisation; technology; environment; poverty; capacity building. introduction The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) for fostering economic growth and sustaining development. The paper focuses on the role that traditional knowledge and local cultural values play...