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The purpose of this study is to highlight the factors that affect to poverty alleviation. In this regard a review of literature is conducted where many factors have been evaluated and found less research work for wellbeing to poverty alleviation. This study suggested that wellbeing factors improve wealth and living standard of individuals. In addition, the role of wellbeing in poverty alleviation is explained. To explore the extent of wellbeing factors so as to be proposed, suggesting further investigation to develop a strong poverty alleviation theory. This study highlights the role of wellbeing factors including human resources (occupations, education, vaccination and supplements, illness and treatments), material resources (land, livestock, assets, housing, food, clothing, wealth) and social resources (kin, local community, connection to wider world, market and government) may be prove protagonist for poverty alleviation. This conceptual paper contributes to the existing poverty alleviation literature by suggesting a combination of wellbeing factors that provides a theoretical ground for developing a strong poverty alleviation theory

Bahadur Ali Soomro, Dr. Naimatullah Shah, Mtiho Khan Bhatti , Abdul Wahid Zehri. (2013) The Role of Wellbeing for Poverty Alleviation: A Conceptual Study, Balochistan Review, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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