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and internal rice trade. Rice Market Liberalization and Poverty in Viet Nam, Research Report 114, analyzes whether further …
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The devastating environmental effects of deforestation and the exploitation of other natural resources in the developing world have been well documented, yet their impact on local communities has received far less attention. This report looks at how land degradation and deforestation are being...
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, Myanmar, Viet Nam, and China) in advancing the twin objectives of economic growth and poverty reduction. The paper first …
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This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate … information on household income. The results show that using a husband's estimate of his wife's income does not produce … statistically reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates of the wife's income separately provided by the husband and wife …
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The Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) conducted this Rural Household Panel Survey (RHPS) during March-April 2012 …
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"In recent years bioenergy... has drawn attention as a sustainable energy source that may help cope with rising energy prices, address environmental concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and offer new income and employment to farmers and rural communities around the world. For many countries...
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small. Household surveys, however, rarely allow the estimation of poverty rates for more than 5-10 regions in a country … relationship between rural poverty and 25 household indicators is estimated using household survey data. Then, census data on those … investments on rural poverty. Previous research shows that such targeting is not very accurate unless the geographic units are …
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to measure aspirations, thereby limiting comparability of the results obtained. This paper proposes a simple measurement …
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