explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk …

services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural …, whenever possible, provides evidence of the effects of these determinants on competitiveness, growth, and poverty in Latin … (growth), micro (productivity at the firm level), and poverty (the earnings of poor/rural people). In addition, the paper …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …

In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …