Similar Search Results

Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund

Parajuli, Dilip; Acharya, Gayatri; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012

The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552147

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

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … Nepal occurring between 1995 and 2004 can be attributed to increased levels of work-related migration and remittances sent … reduction in Nepal should consider aspects of the dynamics of domestic and international migration. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552679

Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

Balat, Jorge; Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido - 2012

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. The authors claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552275

Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China

Chen, Shaohua; Mu, Ren; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper revisits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China 10 years after it began and four years after disbursements ended. The program emphasized community participation in multi-sectoral interventions (including farming, animal husbandry, infrastructure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552327

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552342

Making Poor Haitians Count : Poverty in Rural and Urban Haiti Based on the First Household Survey for Haiti

Verner, Dorte - 2012

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....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552354

The Impact of Remittances on Rural Poverty and Inequality in China

Zhu, Nong; Luo, Xubei - 2012

Large numbers of agricultural labor moved from the countryside to cities after the economic reforms in China. Migration and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552425

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552623

Consumption Risk, Technology Adoption, and Poverty Traps : Evidence from Ethiopia

Dercon, Stefan; Christiaensen, Luc - 2012

Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper focuses on a factor that has been less well...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552707

Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income?

Schady, Norbert; Rosero, Jos?? - 2012

How cash transfers made to women are used has important implications for models of household behavior and for the design of social programs. In this paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to poor women in rural Ecuador to analyze the effect of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552732