The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …

Slow agricultural development has restrained economic growth and poverty alleviation in Cambodia. The country … impact of access to land on poverty in a logistic regression framework using household survey data. Increased access to land … is shown to significantly lower the risk of household poverty. Tenure security, land improvements and irrigation …

from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …

that female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural … areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty increased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

This paper develops a methodology to measure the impact of price changes on poverty measured by an entire class of … additive separable poverty measures. This impact is captured by means of price elasticity of poverty. The total effect of … changes in price on poverty is explained in terms of two components. The first component is the income effect of the change in …

that households headed by women are poorer than those headed by men. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural … areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads works in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty increased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

This paper offers a micro-founded general definition of poverty set in the context of utility theory. Poverty and non-poverty …

This paper offers a micro-founded general definition of poverty set in the context of utility theory. Poverty and non-poverty …