Ghana has seen notable poverty reduction alongside improvements in school participation since 1991. This paper examines … the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of …

Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …

definitions of poverty and have better information on the welfare status of their members. …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the causal effects of education on freedom of spouse choice …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …

In this paper we estimate the impact of a land reform program in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. In 2002, Program 132 … directed the transfer of farm land to ethnic minority households that had less than one hectare of land. Using the 2002 Vietnam …

This paper inscribes itself in the logic of debates on the policies of poverty reduction which have been taking place … for a decade now. The author evaluates the influence of social religious capital on the poverty of households in Cameroon … the author makes use of three different models to estimate three indicators - of monetary poverty, of poverty of living …

This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … allow movement out of poverty. For urban areas, location and access to particular types of jobs appears to matter. The paper … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …