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Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty in rural Malawi. This study … 2010 two-fifths of all households had a chance of at least 40 percent of falling below the poverty line in the future. The … results show that many households in rural Malawi are vulnerable to poverty, although, as with many other studies of rural …
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-making under conditions of extreme poverty, and risk. The author argues that publicly observable celebrations have two functions …-making competitions. The first role is central to maintaining the networks essential for social relationships, and coping with poverty …
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economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization … poverty with little, or no outside assistance, despite severe resource constraints. Their impact could be enormous if external …
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How can we help poor people to earn more from their knowledge rather than from their sweat and muscle? This paper draws lessons from projects intended to promote and protect the innovation, knowledge, and creative skills of poor people in poor countries, particularly to improve the earnings of...
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The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to …
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This paper nowcasts poverty in India, one of the countries with the largest population below the international poverty … uncertainty about recent poverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and survey-to-survey methodology, extreme poverty … (at the $1.90 poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. The …
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What are linkages between rural infrastructure investments, and household welfare? In the past, most of the evaluations to assess the effectiveness of a project, focused on physical outputs, and success of project implementation. In recent years, more attention has been given to the impact of...
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This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. The authors claim … participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. They test the model using data from the Uganda National Household …
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This paper analyzes poverty in Haiti based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole … country and representative at the regional level. Using a USD1 a day extreme poverty line, the analysis reveals that 49 … percent of Haitian households live in absolute poverty. Twenty, 56, and 58 percent of households in metropolitan, urban, and …
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While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and … pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic …). Rising inequality within the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high …
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