Zambia is a landlocked country located in southern central Africa and it is one of the poorest countries in the world … Zambia and mortality rates are among the highest in the world. The rural transportation network is largely undeveloped and …

) programs to si- multaneously achieve conservation and poverty alleviation, there is not a great deal of understanding of … whether they work in practice, and how incentives and local management do, indeed affect poverty and local resource use. In …

This brief paper tries to highlight two important missing aspects for understanding poverty issues in developing … effective solution to the poverty issue. …

This paper summarizes a few key findings from a rich and growing body of research on the nature of rural poverty and … lesson of recent research on rural poverty is the need to distinguish transitory from chronic poverty. The existence of … widespread chronic poverty also raises the possibility of poverty traps. I discuss some of the empirical and theoretical …

The standard theory of anti-poverty targeting assumes individual incomes cannot be observed, but statistical properties … poverty alleviation leads to seemingly paradoxical rules, such as targeting transfers to the community that is richer. Total …

underlying reasons for disagreements on water, among those who proclaim to be for poverty reduction? This paper tries to …