24 developing countries collected by research partners in CIFOR’s Poverty Environment Network (PEN). Environmental income …

of poverty. While their harvesting does not preclude the ongoing conversion of wildlands to agriculture, privileged …

raising poverty concerns. On the other hand, foreign capital financed more domestic investment, causing economic expansion and … growth; with more job opportunities poverty could be reduced. This paper follows this theory and examines how standards of …

This paper illustrates the main regional differences of Italian poverty and presents an econometric analysis of the key … determinants of poverty risk for the period from 1992 to 2008. The results show that an increase by 1% in the unemployment rate and … a lower level of education raise the risk of being trapped in poverty by 0.42% and 1.7%, respectively. Conversely …

. In particular, we quantify theextent to which these schemes contribute to alleviate elderly poverty across Europe …, they are more effective in reducing elderly poverty rates. On the other hand,they fail to ensure a level of financial well …

This paper evaluates poverty sensitivity to growth in mean incomes and distributional changes in Italy across its … Italy to estimate the growth incidence curves and the income and inequality elasticities of poverty. Growth strongly … determines the patterns of poverty; however, inequality appears to have strikingly characterized it as well. A 1% increase in …

With serious impacts of climate change looming in a few decades, but currrent poverty still high in the developing word …, we ask how to spend development aid earmarked for the poor.  Poverty reduction tends to be strongly linked to economic …-resilient and less environmentally damaging deliver large scale poverty reduction?  Can aid be used for effective poverty reduction …