Community-based health insurance has been implemented in several developing countries to help the poor to gain access to adequate health-care services. Assessing what the poor are willing to pay is of paramount importance for policymaking. The contingent valuation method, which relies on a...

Community-based health insurance has been implemented in several developing countries to help the poor to gain access to adequate health care services. Assessing what the poor are willing to pay is of paramount importance for policy-making. The contingent valuation method, which relies on a...

This article considers methods of cointegration testing to construct a model of Zimbabwe 's corn sector. Corn production, sales of corn to the government, the price of corn, and price of beef are linked together in one long-run equilibrium (cointegrating) relation. Only the price of beef is not...

This article applies the sustainable rural livelihoods approach to purposefully collect and analyse data on how the rural poor live and work in South Africa's West Coast District. The findings offer insights into the livelihoods and needs of rural households and offer vital lessons for pro-poor...

This research assesses how low-income households in Western Kenya coped with the immediate economic consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. It uses granular financial data from weekly household interviews covering six weeks before the first case was detected in Kenya to five weeks after. Our...