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-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …
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This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
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exclusion and poverty. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the main measures of over-indebtedness used in the … of over-indebtedness are subsequently compared with the measures of poverty in order to disentangle the relationship …
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The paper reviews the theory of the measurement of poverty. The axiomatic theory is described and the axiomatic … properties of poverty indexes are related to assumptions on the functional form of the poverty index function. The notion of … poverty ordering is then introduced and followed by a review of the relations between the poverty orderings than can be …
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no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …
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Since 2002, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funded programs to promote maize, dairy, and horticulture enterprises among smallholder farmers in Kenya under the Strategic Objective 7 of Increased Rural Household Incomes. On behalf of USAID, Tegemeo Institute has...
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are scarce. Therefore, non-timber forest products may offer sources of income and opportunities for poverty alleviation in …
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(FSP/FISP). More than 90% of GRZ funding for Poverty Reduction Programmes is devoted to the FRA and FSP/FISP, yet there has … been no major reduction in rural poverty rates in Zambia since 2004. …
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maize production. But ironically, rural poverty remains stubbornly high despite the fact that the government has spent over … that maize production has increased so impressively without making a serious dent in rural poverty? And what are the …
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on long term poverty dynamics i.e., how they perceived their welfare compared to that of their parents with the major … worse off (WO) than both parents were. Poverty was mainly defined from the communities' own perspectives and entailed …
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