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Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis : An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia

McCulloch, Neil; Weisbrod, Julian; Timmer, C. Peter - 2012

Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realized in farming, in rural...

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Scaling-up Microfinance for India???s Rural Poor

Basu, Priya; Srivastava, Pradeep - 2012

This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank … 6,000 households in India undertaken by the authors. The main findings and implications of the paper are as follows …

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Does Urbanization Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts

Cal??, Massimiliano; Menon, Carlo - 2013

Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, there is little knowledge of the effects of the former on the latter. Using a large sample of Indian districts from the 1983-1999 period, the authors find that...

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The Role of Services in Rural Income : The Case of Vietnam

Aksoy, M. Ataman; Isik-Dikmelik, Aylin - 2012

This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative response of the households and income growth after a major trade liberalization in rice are analyzed aiming to answer the following questions: What type of households, in which...

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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas

Ersado, Lire - 2012

The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption and expenditure surveys in...

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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - 2013

This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...

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Improving Logistics Costs for Transportation and Trade Facilitation

Gonzalez, Julio A.; Guasch, Jose Luis; Serebrisky, Tomas - 2012

Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural communities in Latin America live on average 5 kilometers...

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Lokshin, Michael; Bontch-Osmolovski, Mikhail; … - 2012

Using two rounds of nationally representative household survey data in this study, the authors measure the impact on poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with nonrandom selection of migrants and simulate various...

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Forests, Biomass Use and Poverty in Malawi

Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit; Shyamsundar, Priya; Baccini, … - 2012

In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent of biomass available for meeting the energy needs of the poor in Malawi and how is this distributed? (2) To what extent does fuelwood scarcity affect the welfare of the poor? (3)...

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China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2013

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and across provinces. Rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped. The pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far...

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