This study examined the determinants and impacts of mobile money (MM) usage on maize productivity and poverty … likelihood (i.e., the probability of a household falling below the international poverty line at USD 1.9 per capita per day) in … reduced poverty likelihood. Farmers who chose to use MM services increased their maize productivity by about 124 kg/acre and …

commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions … investment ; globalization ; outsourcing ; technology ; capability ; energy ; trade flows ; inequality and poverty ; technology …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …

. -- Poverty ; rent ; overcrowding ; Scotland ; 1904 ; Bowley …