between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions …

Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more … countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 …

variables, including access to drinking and irrigation water supplies and social vulnerability (that is, poverty), are overlaid …

contamination in drinking water is measured at household and source points. Stunting is measured using height-for-age z-scores for … increase in the prevalence of stunting in children who are exposed to highly contaminated drinking water at household point …

information collected through a household survey. It is the first detailed analysis of the combined effects of increasing block … large. The average household receives a subsidy of US$26 per month, about 6 percent of household income. The findings also …

, community, household, and system indicators were used to identify key determinants of the sustainability of rural water systems …

The effects of urban transport policies on household welfare are a broadly understudied topic in developing countries …. The paper uses pooled cross-sectional household survey data, analyzed by block, over 2008-15 and a difference …