1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

welfare on individual well-being constitutes a significant issue. This paper studies the disposable income and poverty among … poverty. We conclude that leaving welfare is not always associated with becoming financially better off, and post welfare well …

periurbanagriculture the absolute poverty is strongly reduced. But the realization of urbanagriculture in a new and strange environment …

.S. poverty thresholds to identify 2,099 families living near or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Food insecurity … insecurity of approximately 6 percentage points. Given our finding that families near the federal poverty level spend a large …