Research has shown that there is a strong negative relationship between social spending and poverty levels. Among urban … research to urban inequality research by investigating the effects of social spending on poverty in urban and non-urban areas …

. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage … of poverty by 0.9953, 0.1220 and 0.4016 x 10-6 respectively. Membership of the cooperative by household heads, ownership … elastic, the responsiveness of the probability and intensity of poverty to dependency ratio, farming experience, farm size and …

poverty using data from households. Through a multi stage sampling procedure, 150 farming households were selected using … questionnaire. Results of Foster, Greer and Thorbecke decomposition show that poverty incidence, depth and severity increase with … increase in labor employed in farm operations implying that poverty is directly related to labor. Finding further reveals that …

Rural non-farm employment (RNFE) is thought to ease poverty, economic vulnerability and income inequality. Two key … in three ways: it is the most important income source of middleincome farms, it lifts poor households out of poverty, and …

This study analyses the relationships between rural poverty and environmental degradation in Machadinho and Maximiliano …, expressing the rural poverty situations. The main results point towards a refutation of the hypothesis that rural poverty and …

This paper attempts to assess the link between poverty and efficiency in Ethiopia. Based on 214 households drawn from … levels of poverty and efficiency, and assessed the link between the two. Both objective and subjective measures were used to … measure the level of poverty, which was found to be 28% and 27% by both measures, respectively. While 35.6% of households were …