The purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting the lives of women who weave carpets in rural Turkey by … investigating these questions: 1) Why do rural Turkish women weave carpets? 2) What are the influences of the global market on … picture of some of the factors that impact the lives of rural Turkish women, and how these factors are reflected in the …

explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk …

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature ofunemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants …

is whether such threshold points exist in Pakistan and Ethiopia and, if so, where they are located. Methodologically, the … poverty thresholds. Third, it adds the first study for a South Asian country and makes a comparison with Ethiopia … households in the sample. In Ethiopia, the equilibrium is barely above the very low mean. This, together with the slow speed of …

pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth dynamics among a very poor population. These data yield several novel …

This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico … ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …

the formation of credit networks. It uses original data, collected in Southern Ethiopia, an environment where nonlinear … data from southern Ethiopia it is shown that this method yieldsestimates of the structure of social relations that are …

insights from field research in Ethiopia, including personal interviews with relevant parties and direct observation of how …