Southern Africa, and another more diverse and incipient group of programs providing a mix of poverty-based transfers in the low …

other countries) on investment and poverty in Ghana. It has three findings. First, when compared to what they would have …This paper analyzes the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African or … receipt of remittances greatly reduces likelihood of household poverty. These findings support the growing view that …

impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their distributional characteristic. Our findings suggest that public transfers can … poor, small unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social …

productive capacity of households in poverty and contribute to micro-level growth. It introduces a basic framework linking …

development objectives: food security and poverty. We employ a series of evaluation methodologies, including a Quasi … on food security, but no effect on poverty. Investigating possible mechanisms for this result shows that reallocation of … while poverty remained unaffected. …

foreseeable future. Although both history and theory suggest a preeminent role for agricultural growth in poverty reduction in …

We use panel survey data and household event-histories to explore patterns of rural poverty dynamics in Kenya over the … period 2000–2009. We find substantial mobility across poverty categories using economic transition matrices. Drawing on asset …-based approaches, we distinguish stochastic from structural poverty transitions. Few households successfully escaped poverty through …

, including ones driven by both wealth and poverty, are now at play. …