This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty … alleviation experience, and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal … logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory, and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation …

P.T. Bauer boldly conjectured two hypotheses about the process of escaping poverty. First, he argued that foreign aid …

living standards in LDCs. In particular, it is not known if a substantial share of welfare or poverty is the consequence of … price differences rather than of differences in living standards across households and seasons. Using data from Rwanda, we … contrast, the change in poverty can be considerable, for chronic as well as transient or seasonal poverty indicators. The …

Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate censored quantile regressions for both household chronic and transient … seasonal poverty indices. The estimation results show that the number of children, the age and the minority ethnic group of the … head, and the distance to the nearest market are related to higher household chronic and transient poverty. In contrast …

It is crucial for social policy in Less Developed Countries to identify separate correlates for transient poverty and … chronic poverty at the household level because seasonal poverty substantially contributes to annual poverty. This has been … attempted by estimating household equations for those poverty indicators typically by using Tobit and Probit models. However …