problems with the 'pro-poor programme', an effort to reduce poverty through the resources generated from community forestry …

interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performance. Primary and … secondary data are used to estimate three regressions models: a macro model on tank degradation, a household-level model on …

Our previous work argued that the official U.S. poverty definition is flawed because it ignores interest paid on … household debt. When it was developed in the early 1960s, this was not a problem because U.S. households had little consumer … argues that what is true of poverty is likewise true of income inequality indices, such as the gini coefficient and the …

Despite the professed claims of microcredit alleviating poverty, little is known about what kind of credit contract is …

household. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that explain their relative effect on poverty of the … household. Poverty thus captured at micro level is expected to provide insights for polices to alleviate poverty at national …Poverty being multi-dimensional in nature is the product of various interactive socioeconomic factors. Some of the …

suitable indicators of household assets and of fertility and its instruments. Methodologically, we take rigorous tests to show …

housing, and apply various decomposition methods to these one- and multidimensional indices and also to a poverty index. In …

) regression to link the growth incidence curve (GIC) to household characteristics and perform counterfactual decomposition à la … of growth. In particular, that effect tends to reduce poverty while the structural effect tends to increase it. This … conclusion is robust with respect to the choice of poverty measures and RIF regression models. …