This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … data from the Viet Nam household living standards surveys (VHLSSs) of 2002 and 2004. It has been found that revenues from … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and …

This paper examines the evolution and causes of poverty in Cartagena, Colombia, during the period 2002-2005. We use a … probabilistic model (probit) to identify the individual characteristics that explain the incidence of poverty in the city. We also … examine the concept of vulnerability, defined as the possibility that future levels of consumption may be below the poverty …

security, level of poverty and participation in community organizations (social capital), and, most importantly, that household …This study investigates the impact of poverty, social capital and land tenure on the adoption of soil fertility … level poverty reduces the probability of adoption of most of the technologies, while social capital and land tenure security …

The paper reviews the theory of the measurement of poverty. The axiomatic theory is described and the axiomatic … properties of poverty indexes are related to assumptions on the functional form of the poverty index function. The notion of … poverty ordering is then introduced and followed by a review of the relations between the poverty orderings than can be …

of income and capital, as well as education, health and poverty-alleviation spending, can lead to less appropriative …

There is increasing recognition of the importance of dealing with material hardship rather than just income poverty … public opinion on the need to reduce poverty and hardship, and in terms of its use of poor customers surveys to analyze the …

Purpose – This purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide a framework for understanding anti‐poverty strategies in … policy strategists and practitioners the paper may throw new light on age‐old problems in poverty alleviation and public …

Based on a series of research projects which investigated the development and operation of anti‐poverty strategies by …