country studies carried out with partners in Argentina, Uruguay, Tanzania, South Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ICT was …

in two case studies carried out in Tanzania and Chad. Kaspar Wyss and N’Diekhor Yemadji led the case study in Chad and … Salim Abdulla participated in the Tanzania team.[HEFP working paper 01/06, LSHTM, 2006] …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

problems with the 'pro-poor programme’, an effort to reduce poverty through the resources generated from community forestry …

Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a rather contrary scenario with … dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty despite their adverse agro-climatic conditions vis-à-vis the forest based … regions. Understanding these dynamics is very important for formulating a long-term strategy for the amelioration of poverty …

Good empirical analysis of the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty is challenging. This note clarifies this … the IGT of poverty. But it is also important to be alert to opportunities for improving data and for encouraging … collection of new and better data. [This paper was commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) www.chronicpoverty.org ] …