Nzasabayezu O, Jaya Prakash SK, M.V RP. A study of poverty alleviation strategies for sustainable development: A scientometric analysis.
Heliyon 2024;
10:e33469. [PMID:
39040409 PMCID:
PMC11260945 DOI:
10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e33469]
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Abstract
Purpose
The present study aims to investigate the current and future trends in poverty alleviation strategies for sustainable development, show the gaps and propose the way forward for future research.
Methods
This research covers four decades from 1981 to 2023. We identified a corpus of 5,982 articles from the Scopus database using the bibliometric and scientometric methods. We excluded 653 to remain, with 5,329 fulfilling the conditions of non-duplicates, suitable authorship, and conform content. These documents include articles, reviews, journals, books and other publications in our study field. With the help of VOS viewer and R-Studio software, we have performed two significant tests: performance analysis and science mapping.
Results
Despite the poverty alleviation strategies for sustainable development that emerged in 1981, it has experienced steady growth from 2000 onwards and has reached the pick in 2022 with 316 publications. The most prolific countries are China, the USA and the UK. At the same time, the most contributing authors are Liu Y, Wang Y, and Lily, both from China and Ravaillion, M from Australia. They have discussed more about poverty alleviation and poverty reduction. Furthermore, we realize that the household, remittance and land use have no connection with any item besides the government and IMF.
Conclusion
We have underlined the countries and authors that contributed the most and revealed the challenges in poverty alleviation via thematic mapping. Therefore, we recommend that future researchers, while keeping an eye on Africa, livelihoods, gender inequality, and India, focus more on poverty alleviation, China, and sustainable development. Special attention also must focus on the household, remittance, land use, government, and IMF and find ways to improve their role in poverty alleviation strategies for sustainable development.
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