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 measures of poverty, and energy-environment-poverty relationships. The core …

The goal of this paper is represented by the analysis of the competitive behaviour at rural household level in Ţara … level to agricultural household level, competitiveness operates as a selection mechanism (only certain agricultural … household farms survive on the market, which obtain quality products and have more efficient production processes); this also …

are significant differences regarding the marital status, the presence of at least one child in the household and whether … the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are …

positively influence the process of modernization-sustainable development of the rural household and the Romanian rural area. The … the point of view of the rural household modernization potential. To quantify the links between the investigated phenomena … optimistic, realistic and pessimistic scenarios - of consolidating the rural household by improving demographic structures. The …

those for the region of residence lead to an increase in probability of 2.2-3.2% (according to gender differences) to move … to other regions commuting more than 45 minutes. Moreover, we find support also for the ?household responsibility … hypothesis, confirming that women are less willing to commute longer and to move outside their own region of residence compared …

considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …