This paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents' escape from poverty traps … poverty. However, the voluntary nature of costly social network formation also creates both involuntary and voluntary … exclusionary mechanisms that impede some poor households' exit from poverty. Through numerical simulation, we show that the …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …

resources, poverty and inequality. Data from a representative sample of rural households from the South-southeast region of …

This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare … as the choice of inequality and poverty aversion parameters, and that of the poverty line). The elasticities are also …

The Grameen Bank's success in Bangladesh has made microcredit the hot new idea for reducing poverty. This paper uses …-recipients. Poverty is measured by levels of consumption. Vulnerablitiy is measured as fluctuations in consumption (associated with … is substantial leakage to the landed. Landlessness is not significangly associated with either poverty or vulnerablitiy …

or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty. …