inequality and increased poverty. We provide an early assessment of whether (and to what extent) this is the case. More …

This article analyzes both the monetary and non-monetary effects of theeducation level of the head of the household on … poverty. We propose thatschooling returns should not be thought as a single number - usually theschooling coeffi cient in an … income equation - but as a set of elements whoselength depends on the number of identifi ed poverty dimensions. The …

This study assesses the impact of income and asset poverty on child work using the rural sub-sample of the 2004 Malawi … Integrated Household Survey. Instrumenting consumption expenditure with a location dummy variable and interacting consumption … expenditure with household land-holding size in probit models, the likelihood of child labour is found to relate negatively with …

captured by an indicator variable of whether or not the household has a forest certificate for the plot. Results indicate that …. Furthermore, results indicate that risk aversion, as well as a household’s liquidity constraint, have an impact on forest … risks and poverty need to be coupled with such reforms in order to increase investment in long-term, productivity enhancing …

The relationship between poverty and natural resources is complex and the empirical evidence to date, mostly from … studies of forest activities and poverty, is inconclusive. The main purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the … effects of household characteristics and of inequality at the village level on natural resource extraction and dependence. To …

Macroeconomic crises not only affect the current living standards of the poor, but their ability to grow out of poverty …. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only … result in higher poverty rates but may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of this evidence …

household livelihoods. Households successfully accumulating assets and rising out of poverty (i) were more likely to have … approaches for addressing rural poverty, each giving way to a new paradigm as the persistence of poverty created disillusionment … participatory poverty reduction strategies, and resurgent interest in agricultural development. However, rural poverty in most of …