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poverty, and relative deprivation among smallholder maize growers in Zambia. The analysis contributes to the literature by …
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A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield … effects to identify the counterfactual income distribution without improved maize arieties. Poverty impacts are estimated as … the differences in poverty indices computed using observed and counterfactual income distributions. Improved maize …
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Studies in the area of health economics and public health have shown that low socioeconomic status (SES) and poverty … that poor health behaviours cluster in low SES respectively poverty groups. However, relatively little attention has been … are used to analyse the relationship between two multidimensional measurements to describe a) poverty respectively b) a …
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nutritional poverty line in Bangladesh. We focus on the first two moments of the distribution of nutrition and consider the …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 10/20/10.
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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/28/11. Former title: Indirect Effects of Microfinance: A Field Experiment on Formal Savings Expansion and Informal Safety Nets of the Ultra-Poor
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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/11.
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approaches for addressing rural poverty, each giving way to a new paradigm as the persistence of poverty created disillusionment … participatory poverty reduction strategies, and resurgent interest in agricultural development. However, rural poverty in most of … out of poverty, thus providing an opportunity to learn about the economic pathways that might enable other rural …
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reducing rural poverty among their objectives, but are ISPs achieving these objectives? We use data from two nationally …, poverty severity, and the probability of household income falling below the US$2 and US$1.25/capita/day poverty lines. Results … substantively reduce the probability or severity of poverty. …
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