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change in rice price on the one hand, and poverty and food insecurity (measured by calorie intake) on the other, are … increase in the real income of consumers following lower prices for a staple food, the poverty rate is calculated to fall from … 0.24 to 0.16. The measures of poverty gap and poverty severity are also expected to fall, by 0.07 and 0.26 respectively …
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In spite of rapid overall economic growth in the 1990s, rural poverty in Pakistan did not decline. Panel data covering … for other factors, electrification of the village and paved roads raise household real expenditures by about 75 and 100 … impact on rural poverty. …
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An increasing scarcity of water for crop farming and livestock watering among agropastoralists of Mieso in Eastern Ethiopia has largely disrupted their livelihoods. Indigenous water well maintenance and government initiated rainwater harvesting are two important collective actions common among...
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-oriented community forest policies in Nepal on three household income groups. The results show that current community forest policies … income of the poorest households and largely explain the recent increase in rural poverty. …
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a especially designed household survey for a representative sample of rural towns we are able to link access to … telephone services with household income. We find, that regardless of the income measurement, most characteristics of public …
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a source of income. Research methods leading to a better understanding of the role of livestock in household poverty … primary role in household poverty escapes in one of the study regions but not the other. Livestock strategies that have helped … and household surveys, giving us a combination of qualitative and quantitative results. We examined how, over the last 10 …
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that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall … reduces the incidence of poverty by about six percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production …
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employment with interesting gender implications. Likewise, aggregate household incomes rise, including for poor and vulnerable … farmers, highlighting that Bt cotton contributes to poverty reduction and rural development. …
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poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export … sharply in many countries, and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the supply response … clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. Lastly, the global food system is …
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This study evaluates the impacts of a community-driven development (CDD) project on household income and acquisition of …
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