diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to …

surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar … contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …

further poverty reduction in Indonesia. To provide a good technical basis for answering this question, the authors use an …Indonesia experienced rapid growth and the expansion of the formal financial sector during the last quarter of the 20th …, macroeconomic stability has since then been restored, and poverty has been reduced to pre-crisis levels. Poverty reduction remains …

. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in that country. A … decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have blunted the poverty impacts of …

irrigation. Irrigated agriculture consumes about 75 percent of total water used, which is about 30 percent of renewable water …

that are relevant to irrigation water management issues. The most widely discussed issues in these models are water markets … water policy make it difficult to provide a comprehensive policy analysis. General equilibrium models of irrigation water … management allow incorporation of both the irrigation sector and the other sectors in the economy and analysis of policies …

. They find that it is important to include the amount of irrigation water available to each farm in order to measure the … response of farms to climate. With irrigation water omitted, the model predicts that climate change is strictly beneficial. But …

This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The … model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value … adapt their choice of farm type and irrigation to their local climate. The results should help governments develop effective …

Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is … exogenous. In practice, it is a choice by farmers that is sensitive to climate. This paper develops a choice model of irrigation … in the context of a Ricardian model of cropland. The authors examine how climate affects the decision to use irrigation …