Slovakia has undergone such a notable economic progress in recent decades, that it made the country envied all over the world. Meanwhile, the intensifying core-periphery imbalances have been unquestionably apparent: the development is concentrated primarily on the capital city region and its...

This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Eleven authors agreed to have their papers included in this volume. The studies can be grouped into four domains: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics and determinants of poverty, multidimensional...

This study investigates child multidimensional poverty in Cameroon. It finds out its determinants and its relationship with household multidimensional poverty by considering children aged less than five years. The study uses from the Third Multiple Indicators Clusters Survey. Five dimensions are...

The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand, poor households depend on environmental resources as additional income sources or as additional household products. On the other hand, natural resource extraction further...