estimation of household vulnerability to poverty in Nicaragua is made. The household vulnerability is assessed as the probability … that the expected value of the logarithm of consumption is lower than the logarithm of certain threshold of poverty. Both … official and International poverty lines are considered. The estimation of the expected value and the variance of the logarithm …

andpoverty. In the first essay, to investigate this issue, panel data are used from a randomizedexperiment conducted in Nicaragua … household welfare and poverty in Lao PDR(Laos). Households benefit from an increase in the price of rice if they are net sellers … region, which have relatively wealthyhouseholds. The increases in the national poverty rates due to a sharp …

Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …

tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …