Vulnerability to poverty in Malawi is highly associated with risk. Households face multiple shocks, most of which … drought, which is exacerbated by environmental change. This study analyzes the impact of drought on household’s vulnerability … using a two-period panel dataset of 259 rural households in Malawi. In the framework of vulnerability as expected poverty …

The poverty problem is chronic in the Horn of Africa. Majority of the people in the region are suffering from this … problem. There are numerous factors that cause poverty in the region. The challenge of poverty reduction in the Horn should … therefore address the poverty reduction issues at national, provincial and local levels. A brief survey of literature has been …

of poverty. This study examines the pathways by the Dokur villagers of Andhra Pradesh in India to survive and improve … livelihoods in the face of a decade of persistent drought. The study is based on quantitative and qualitative data collected by …, occupational structure, household income, food intake and nutrition, children’s education, and improvement in living standard are …

In the period before the onset of demographic transition, when fertility rates were positively associated with income … children than the poor. Once the economic environment improves sufficiently, the evolutionary pressure weakens, and on the …

This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale … other vulnerable children (OVC). …

. The results attained and the evidence mobilized consistently show the interdependencies of health, education and poverty … and the potential gains that can be transversally achieved with the promotion of the roles of women and children. …

This paper considers the problem of a water management authority that is faced with the threat of a drought that will … restored, and iii) an economically optimal policy taking account of the probability of a drought and the fact that water is an … asset (a stock of natural capital). In particular, it is shown that the optimal pre-drought steady-state stock of water is …

case, the lack of the water. During 1949 and 1955, studies were carried out concerning the damages produced by drought and …

implications of drought-induced livestock and crop production shortfalls in various regions of Ethiopia, world price increases and …