We summarize existing theoretical claims linking poverty to rates of deforestation and then examine this linkage … controlling for this, impacts of poverty per se are confounded by richer areas being different from the areas inhabited by the …’ characteristics, we find that poorer areas are cleared more rapidly. This result suggests that poverty reduction aids forest …

This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which … changes in poverty. Second, it allows distinguishing between chronic and transient poverty, by defining as chronically poor … those households whose level of consumption sustainable in the long term lies below the poverty line. This definition of …

We review claims about the potential for carbon markets that link both payments for carbon services and poverty levels … sequestration, and if land users were poor could conserve forest while addressing rural poverty. However, we find poorer areas are …

national antipoverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, which is a scheme designed to compensate farmers …

determining migration outcomes. This study utilizes experimental data on PROGRESA, Mexico's primary poverty reduction program, to …

incidence of poverty. Nationally, the incidence of poverty among individuals has fallen from 50.3 to 45.8 percent over this … period. Most poverty is concentrated in the rural sector (with an incidence of 67.8 percent) and in particular in the Central … that the reduction of rural poverty has not been greater. Further, this apparent slow, but stable decline in overall …