contributions” -- Chapter 2. Tsegaye Mulugeta, “Impacts of Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption on Rural Poverty: Evidence from … Rural Farmers: An Analysis based on Survey Data of Ethiopia” -- Chapter 8. Getu Tigre, “Multidimensional Poverty and its … and alleviating poverty in the country. The studies cover transition from rural agriculture to urban industry and the …

goal of ending poverty in the country. In its nine chapters, it takes the readers through trends and estimates of poverty … in India, explains changes in the way it has been measured over time and the factors that lead to persistence of poverty …, draws attention to the fact that hunger is both a cause and an effect of poverty and has gender and age dimensions too. The …

in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book shows the shift in the literature on prices from being an … theory-based analysis of household behavior. It also includes recent developments in the poverty measurement literature …, documenting the shift from the exclusively money metric and unidimensional poverty measures to multidimensional poverty …

econometric and statistical techniques. The authors address and identify the extent of poverty in Afghanistan over the years, the … spatial patterns and regional imbalances of poverty in Afghanistan, the distinguishing characteristics of the poor in … the poor in development processes and to successfully cope with poverty and its adverse outcomes. This short book will be …

This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and …

devising the new method to estimate poverty in India which resulted in India’s poverty estimates being scaled up. This book … reforms, and his important conceptual and policy-relevant work on poverty measurement. The three sub-themes of the book … - Economic Reforms and Policy Formulation, Poverty and Inequality, and Development and Trade - are indicative of his specific …

1. Introduction -- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines -- 3. Decomposing … Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10 -- 4.Pathways Out of Rural … Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four Rice-Ecosystems in the Rural Philippines -- 5. Reducing Petroleum Subsidy in …

These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty …, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings. The key approach consists in linking inequality and poverty … measurement with welfare evaluation. As concern for inequality and poverty stems from ethical considerations, the measurement of …