implementation of the model will help in reducing poverty in the Muslim majority countries. Social implications Muslim countries host … half of global poverty, even though their share in global population is only one-fourth. Hence, there is need for solutions … in achieving scale in poverty alleviation efforts. Originality/value Using a mathematical model, the paper presents …

This study investigates the impact of poverty, social capital and land tenure on the adoption of soil fertility … security, level of poverty and participation in community organizations (social capital), and, most importantly, that household … level poverty reduces the probability of adoption of most of the technologies, while social capital and land tenure security …

direct link between household water and economic poverty of rural households, with households’ total monthly income used as … an indicator of economic poverty. An adaptation of a comprehensive water poverty index, which considers water access …, quality, use, and water-related environmental aspects is used to measure household-level water poverty. The empirical analysis …

This paper studies the implications of farm–non-farm population shifts for household poverty outcomes in Cameroon. It …-sector and between-sector effects are important in accounting for the fall in poverty, with the former largely accounting for the … decline in the incidence, depth and severity of poverty. The inter-sector effects portray the role played by farmâ …

This study examined the effect of access to micro-credit on poverty status of rural households in Obafemi-Owode LGA in … aid of FGT poverty index and the Logit regression model. The results of descriptive analysis reveal that majority of the … count poverty index also reveals that about 35 percent of households in the study area were poor, subsisting below the …