Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty … and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the … poverty line and inter-regional differences across provinces. Results suggest that the majority of population seems to be only …

poorest and market-isolated households, questioning popular policy narratives about poverty-driven forest clearing. …

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. …

Aquaculture is widely held to contribute to poverty reduction and food security in the Global South, but robust …

The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters on welfare and poverty of …

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 …

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 …