Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first-order dominance approach. It examines five welfare indicators:...

Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with economic shocks in the short term. But success depends on a scheme's design and implementation. Key design factors are: properly identifying the target population; selecting...

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...

Diese Dissertation zielt darauf ab, die komplexen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen den verschiedenen Faktoren, die den Prozess der Abholzung der Tropenwälder beeinflussen, durch die Untersuchung dieser Problematik in der Nähe des Lore Lindu National Parks in Zentral-Sulawesi, Indonesien zu...