Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

food crop producers. However, official statistics on poverty suggest that the cotton growing region of Sikasso is among the …In Mali, the situation of cotton growing households has traditionally been considered as more favorable than that of … poorest regions of the country and that cotton producers are on average poorer than all other farmers. This article offers a …

insecurity in terms of monetary poverty. Using a Malian survey that incorporates exceptionally detailed information on food …

Africa has been hard hit by the international crisis. Initially exogenous and above all financial, it has exacerbated … various internal crises already present in the region. Like the DRC, which is a test case in many respects, Africa could …

This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households …’ expenditures. They are also significantly associated with a decline in the probability of being in poverty for rural households; it …

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the …

The aim of this article is to analyse in depth the interactions of growth and poverty in Syria, which undertook reforms … agriculture a decreasing one. Agricultural and land-policy reforms could have had a negative impact on poverty, despite their …