, especially in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, the land area grown with oil palm grew by almost 50% over the last 10 years. While …

Poverty and inequality persist in many regions of the developing world. This may be due mainly to an ineffective … targeting of policies to address the root causes of poverty. Sustainable policy interventions are in need of reliable concepts … of poverty and of a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanism that lead to such deprivation. The three essays of …