Rural non-farm employment (RNFE) is thought to ease poverty, economic vulnerability and income inequality. Two key … in three ways: it is the most important income source of middleincome farms, it lifts poor households out of poverty, and …

This study analyses the relationships between rural poverty and environmental degradation in Machadinho and Maximiliano …, expressing the rural poverty situations. The main results point towards a refutation of the hypothesis that rural poverty and …

This paper attempts to assess the link between poverty and efficiency in Ethiopia. Based on 214 households drawn from … levels of poverty and efficiency, and assessed the link between the two. Both objective and subjective measures were used to … measure the level of poverty, which was found to be 28% and 27% by both measures, respectively. While 35.6% of households were …

Conventionally, the analysis of macro-economic shocks and the analysis of income distribution and poverty require very … approaches has diminished, as evaluating the impact of macro-economic shocks on poverty and income distribution within a CGE …

This paper studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both world and domestic trade reform in … agricultural and non-agricultural goods, reduces poverty and inequality in Argentina. However, if only agricultural goods are … included, indicators for poverty and inequality do not improve and even deteriorate somewhat. This is particularly the case if …

poverty. Foreign aid is shown to be the most equitable funding mechanism, whereas a value added tax provides the strongest … poverty reduction. …