in the future. This paper examines consumption risk and risk-coping strategies in the case of Tajikistan, a country where … household welfare and poverty measures based on the financial concept of risk aversion and the volatility in welfare, measured … coping strategies. The results show that higher risk and risk aversion is related to lower consumption and higher poverty …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

The paper studies the multidimensional aspects of poverty and living conditions in Ghana. The aim is to fill the vacuum … that has been left by traditional uni-dimensional measures of deprivation based on poverty lines, exclusively estimated on … the basis of monetary variables such as income or consumption expenditure. It combines monetary and non-monetary, and …

household or non-paid activities than their counterpart males. The paper further found education and time poverty to be …This paper discusses time poverty (well-being) of the individual and puts it in the Ghanaian perspective. The paper … examine hours adults as well as children allocate to work. The paper measured time poverty from the Ghanaian context. Using …

for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by …

This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of population … rounds acting as a constraint on comparisons, and using urban poverty ration of the old method as a starting point to decide … a consumption basket. More importantly, it discusses the implications on financial transfers across states if the share …

Caribbean. Lack of sustained economic growth is viewed as the main cause of poverty in the country. The effects of political … conflicts on the breaks of the long term growth path are analized and it is warned about the risk of a new disruption in the …

Poverty is one of the most challenging issues to be addressed by contemporary society. Although it could be considered … paper looks to the content of the poverty concept, reviews the causes of it and how it is approached by various ideologies …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from … subgroups of female-headed households. In particular, in both countries de facto female-headed households are consumption richer …