between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions …

Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more … countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 …

The effects from the change in food prices on household welfare is a topical issue among policy makers and scholars in … Tanzania. However, relatively little is known about the quantitative effects of rising food prices on household welfare and … poverty. This paper intends to quantitatively assess the welfare implications of rising food prices in rural Tanzania, by …

Poverty and inequality persist in many dimensions in the developing world. In order to understand the determinants of … poverty and its distribution between and within countries, it is necessary to know its dimensions and the channels through … which poverty and inequality affect human well-being. This book analyzes the spatial disparities of the outcomes and …

The aim of this paper is to assess the welfare effects of food price changes on urban households' poverty and …, based on the poverty line, 41% of urban households were observed to be below the poverty line and the number of poor …

/2013 and 2015/2016 Household Survey Panel Data, the linear individual (fixed) effects models were estimated while controlling … overall household welfare. However, if policy actions are complemented with food distribution and sensitively guided welfare …