Showing 1 - 10 of 1,033
This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and … the rural population. The poverty-reducing impacts are found to be positive for all three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642704
The poverty levels in Eritrea are alarming. In the light of the escalating nature of poverty, there is an urgent need … for a poverty alleviation initiative to reduce miseries of the majority of the poor. An attempt is made in this paper to … analyse the incidence of poverty in the country with a particular focus on Agriculture. It also shed a light on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260092
of poverty on child labour and child soldier. An attempt is made in this article to highlight and critically examine the … children issues and lessons emerging from Africa and India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836503
Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258091
This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403459
This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264823
” in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with consumption-based measures of poverty, as well as other development …’s situation in Africa. Yet it is not always clear what is meant by time poverty, how time poverty is measured, or what actions are …This paper serves as an introduction and overview for a volume that aims to shed light on the question of “time poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623199
Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, and processors and agro-exporters’ agricultural value chains have begun to transform the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income economies. We develop a conceptual framework through which to study contracting between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784620
of poverty. This study examines the pathways by the Dokur villagers of Andhra Pradesh in India to survive and improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258230
Sericulture, being low capital intensive with low gestation period and assured returns, suits a vast marginal class including landless farmers and low-skilled artisans, whose voices are not heard in the so called fast growing world. This paper will focus on some pertinent regional issues of land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185693