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

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