Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … poverty rate, albeit at a small magnitude. …

This paper questions the Lewis Path perspective of a "world without agriculture" which underpins the "structural … them and other workers. After showing how land constraints and the productivity dynamics outside agriculture might prevent …

This paper provides a new estimation of an international poverty line based on a Bayesian approach. We found that the … official poverty lines of the poorest countries are related to the countries' mean consumption level. This new philosophy is to … be compared to the previous assumptions made by the World Bank in favour of an absolute poverty line. We propose a new …

Zambia was economically prosperous at independence (1964), due to the thriving copper industry. Zambia has the … being utilized. Agriculture generates about 22% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides direct livelihood to more than … economy. Zambia is one of the countries in the southern Africa sub-region faced with a food crisis attributed to a complex …

Zambia was a middle-income country when it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1964. After decades of … international aid Zambia has become a low-income country, and its per capita GDP is only now returning to the levels it had reached … over forty years ago. While aid is far from the only variable at work in Zambia's development, its impact has been …

Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …