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The Empowerment Route to Well-being: An Analysis of Farmer Field Schools in East Africa
Friis-Hansen, Esbern; Duveskog, Deborah - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 414-427
The study explores empowerment and well-being related outcomes of Farmer Field Schools (FFS), an extension approach that has gained popularity with agriculture development programs in many African countries. This is done by examining the empirical relationships between FFS participation and...
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Poverty Reduction During the Rural–Urban Transformation – The Role of the Missing Middle
Christiaensen, Luc; Todo, Yasuyuki - In: World Development 63 (2014) C, pp. 43-58
economy and secondary towns) yields more inclusive growth patterns and faster poverty reduction than agglomeration in mega … cities. This suggests that patterns of urbanization deserve much more attention when striving for faster poverty reduction. …
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Is Aquaculture Pro-Poor? Empirical Evidence of Impacts on Fish Consumption in Bangladesh
Toufique, Kazi Ali; Belton, Ben - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 609-620
Aquaculture is widely held to contribute to poverty reduction and food security in the Global South, but robust …
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Are Poor People Less Happy? Findings from Melanesia
Feeny, Simon; McDonald, Lachlan; Posso, Alberto - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 448-459
Measures of happiness are increasingly being used to inform development policy. This is particularly true in Melanesia where linkages between income and life satisfaction can be weak due to the dominance of semi-subsistence lifestyles. This paper examines the happiness of households in two...
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Natural Disasters, Household Welfare, and Resilience: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed; Nguyen, Cuong; Youssef, Adel Ben - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 59-77
The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters on welfare and poverty of …
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Measuring Exposure to Downside Risk with an Application to Thailand and Vietnam
Povel, Felix - In: World Development 71 (2015) C, pp. 4-24
living of a household as opposed to other benchmarks such as the poverty line in the case of measures of vulnerability. Using …–09 using regressions with household fixed effects. We examine vulnerability to poverty and “hybrid” vulnerability to poverty in …
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A Feminization of Vulnerability? Female Headship, Poverty, and Vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - In: World Development 71 (2015) C, pp. 36-53
headed by men. It analyzes the correlates of consumption, shock exposure, and severity, as well as vulnerability to poverty … suggest that in Thailand single female-headed households are less vulnerable to poverty than households headed by men. However …, in Vietnam these households are particularly poor and vulnerable to poverty; we show that this is mostly due to their …
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The Politics of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Andhra Pradesh
Maiorano, Diego - In: World Development 58 (2014) C, pp. 95-105
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is India’s (and the world’s) largest employment scheme. While many analyses exist on the impact and implementation faults of this program, scant attention has been dedicated to how political dynamics have influenced implementation....
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Is Micro too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance
Bauchet, Jonathan; Morduch, Jonathan - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 288-297
Microcredit and small and medium enterprise (SME) finance are often pitched as alternative strategies to create employment opportunities in low-income communities. So far, though, little is known about how employment patterns compare. We integrate evidence from three surveys to show that,...
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Displacement and Erosion of Informal Risk-Sharing: Evidence from Nepal
Lam, Lai Ming; Paul, Saumik - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 42-55
a vicious cycle of poverty. …
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