This paper analyzes the relationship between rural poverty and forest land management in the context of charcoal …

share of social transfers in disposable income, indicators of inequality and poverty assessment of vulnerable households … monitoring the level of income inequality and deepness of poverty will be used Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve. Mentioned …

When ever the Planning Commission of India releases the poverty data, that data is being criticised by experts and … economists. The main criticism is underestimation of poverty especially in rural India by the Planning Commission. This paper … focuses on that criticism and compares the Indian Planning Commission’s 2004-05 rural poverty data with the India’s 2400 kcal …

capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in … Vietnam increases household income and expenditure. Yet, the study also finds evidence that international remittances may …, at the least in the short run, do not reduce poverty. They may even lead to an increase in inequality. Overall, the study …

having a very low cost structure – making it lucrative for banks to target the rural poor. Poverty is an insidious problem in … states, the issue is even more pressing. High levels of poverty lead to high rates of migration towards the North. Augmented …

values of earnings are ignored. Differences are acute when measuring labor poverty. …The aim of this paper is to make imputation of earnings in observations with missing values in the Encuesta Nacional de … present imputations by two methods, and also a correction for estimations by reweighting observations with reported earnings …

overcome poverty and advance economic growth. For these countries, climate change threatens to deepen vulnerabilities, erode …

This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … cash crops have positive and statistically significant impacts on per capita expenditure. More specifically, an increase of … 1 Viet Nam dong (VND) in rice revenues leads to an increase of 0.019 VND in per capita expenditure, and the …

Indonesia experienced a rapid reduction in poverty during the strong economic growth pre-crisis period. By estimating … the impact of sectoral economic growth components on consistently measured poverty rates across regions and over time …, this study finds that agricultural growth is the largest factor behind the poverty reduction. Agricultural growth accounts …