. Furthermore, in the communities most affected by the El Nino drought, the likelihood of falling into poverty was 14.4 percent …

of development outcomes, such as economic growth, poverty, jobs, equity, environmental quality, and economic resilience …

of a household's resilience capacity on household consumption and poverty. We use panel data (collected in 2010, 2013 … falling into poverty. Thus, rural development policies should attend to transportation and information and communication …

(cotton productivity) in Zambia's agro-based Eastern Province as measured by repeated cross-sections of farm-level data from …) yield" compared to using "cotton productivity" as variable. In the latter case the following matching methods all have … "productivity" variable: Finally, some of the local linear regression and the Mahalanobis matching specifications yields positive …

subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point … decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011, while rural poverty increased marginally. In this study we estimate an … alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially …