rural areas where most economic activities continue to take place. As growth has been weak, poverty levels remain high. This … book provides a collection of papers on conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau based on both the nationally … representative 2002 household survey and a small scale survey with both quantitative and qualitative components implemented in 2004 …

rural areas where most economic activities continue to take place. As growth has been weak, poverty levels remain high. This … book provides a collection of papers on conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau based on both the nationally … representative 2002 household survey and a small scale survey with both quantitative and qualitative components i …

Gender, time use, and poverty: introduction -- Gender and time poverty in sub-Saharan Africa -- A review of empirical … evidence on time use in Africa from UN-sponsored surveys -- Measuring time poverty and analyzing its determinants: concepts and … application to Guinea -- Labor shortages despite underemployment? seasonality in time use in Malawi -- Poverty reduction from full …

the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …

of the recent increase in rice prices on poverty with and without policy responses. Two sets of policy responses are …

comprehensive household survey, this paper provides an assessment of the potential impact of higher food prices on the poor in Ghana …, and other cereals would together lead to an increase in poverty, but that by contrast to a number of other countries, this …

food prices tend to have a larger direct impact on consumers due to the larger share of food in total household consumption …

"When assessing the impact of changes in food prices on poverty, it is important to consider food producers (who may … increase in the price of rice will result in higher poverty in the country as a whole (even if some local producers will gain … from this increase), while a reduction in price will reduce poverty. Furthermore, because rice represents a large share of …

"Telling a policy maker that poverty will increase due to the recent increase in food prices is not very useful … crisis can be targeted to areas that need them the most. This paper shows how to use poverty mapping techniques to assess … the potential positive impact of higher food prices on rice producers is taken into account, in which case poverty may …