First, I calculate separate poverty lines for urban, self-producing rural and other rural households. Second, I analyze … vulnerability to income poverty and food poverty in Turkey and show that while self-producing rural households are as vulnerable to … income poverty as other rural households, they are much less vulnerable to food poverty. Policymakers who promote …

This article aims at testing whether child labor is caused by poverty. Tests are designed for rural areas in a setting … implications of two different poverty hypotheses. We test if child labor is due to a binding subsistence constraint and if child …

agricultural technology adoption within poverty alleviation strategies. It does so through an empirical investigation of the … agricultural technology in directly contributing to poverty alleviation. …

.****************************************************************************************************************Unlike most work on rural poverty in Colombia, in this study we make use of an asset based approach for inquiring about the … determinants of rural poverty. In particular, we examine the presence of local non convexities in the income generating process … differentiated marginal returns to assets. With this, we provide prima facie evidence on the existence of a poverty trap in the …

and develops a new decomposition of poverty changes to analyse the determinants of growth and poverty changes during a … period of economic reform (1989-95). Consumption grew and poverty fell substantially, but the experience was mixed. I find … in poverty shows that the poor have benefited on average more from the reforms than the non-poor households. But the …

and develops a new decomposition of poverty changes to analyse the determinants of growth and poverty changes during a … period of economic reform (1989-95). Consumption grew and poverty fell substantially, but the experience was mixed. I find … in poverty shows that the poor have benefited on average more from the reforms than the non-poor households. But the …