phone can increase off-farm employment and reduce poverty. However, such effects have hardly been studied. To fill this gap … non-monetary aspects of poverty. Using instrumental variable approach, we find that mobile phone ownership increases … household total income andper capita income while it alleviates poverty headcount, depth of poverty, and multidimensional …

Poverty remains a substantial threat in rural areas of many developing countries, and solving this problem requires an … in-depth understanding of the income generating capacity that determines poverty. This paper examines the impact of … poverty. A longitudinal dataset of around 2000 households with a total of 9781 observations from five rural surveys undertaken …

adoption in poverty alleviation strategies. It does so through an empirical investigation of the relationship between … seed technology causes resource-poor farmers to improve their income and decrease the propensity to fall below the poverty … there is a large scope for enhancing the role of agricultural technology in "directly" contributing to poverty alleviation. …

countries, but the magnitude is not the same in all countries. This paper assesses the impact of rising rice price on poverty … higher rice prices have a negative impact on income and poverty in the regions with a large proportion of households who are … net buyers of rice. The poverty rate increases by 2.2 to 2.9 percentage points depending on the assumptions. The increase …