more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … worse performance does not appear to be due to elite capture. Instead, communities appear to be using a different concept of … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

performance, and what would be involved in the future. We use a modified version of Solow growth accounting in which water in …

adhere to the prescribed schedule use more water than those following a more flexible irrigation pattern. For our application …