Cameroon. To address the endogeneity of foster-children supply, we estimate both decision within a recursive bivariate probit … in Cameroon, kinship rules involve children to be hosted by brothers of the male kin group, and more likely by the eldest …. Using data from the demographic and health survey of Cameroon (2004), a dataset uniquely suitable for our purpose since …

The aim of this paper is to examine the main reasons how aid can contribute to poverty reduction, the channels through …

relationship between agricultural trade and rural poverty in post-reform China. We find that trade liberalization can affect China …'s poverty both directly through providing the poor with effective access to factor and product markets, and indirectly through … expansion have led to remarkable reduction in rural poverty over the last two decades, this process was negatively affected and …

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 …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are … confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I … propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the …

on poverty to explore the poverty-reducing role of social protection during financial crises. Using advanced panel data … techniques to deal with endogeneity issues, we find that financial crises are associated with slower reductions in the poverty … headcount and the poverty gap. Crises lead to 526,400-555,000 additional poor people and to an increase of 4.7-10.6 percentage …