interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique, where neither the poverty reduction strategy nor small … higher household consumption, lower rural poverty, as well as upward mobility, particularly for rural and poorly educated …

nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty … statistics; and (iii) to provide alternative estimates of poverty and welfare indicators in light of the methodological and … poverty-rate estimates: measurement errors in consumption data and flaws in the methodology used to calculate poverty lines …

based on randomized assignment, and analyze how impacts vary by exposure to exogenous drought shocks. The results show that … both complementary interventions provide full protection against drought shocks two years after the end of the intervention …

This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa …, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a … damage functions are used to quantify the impact of historical weather conditions on poverty for eight countries …

farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural … Indonesia Family Life Survey for 1993 and 2000, to show which pathways out of poverty were most successful over this period. The … findings suggest that increased engagement of farmers in rural nonfarm enterprises is an important route out of rural poverty …