-poor households with children fall short compared to the poverty threshold (defined as 60% of equivalised median household income … household incomes. This points at severe and increasing structural difficulties to reduce poverty. …

-led development, on food security, and on poverty in Ethiopia. It is line with the current five year development strategy of the … detain while reducing the share of unskilled labor. The same applies for land. Finally, the model has a poverty module using … and is calibrated to a SAM of Ethiopia for the fiscal year 2005/06. The poverty module uses the 2005 Household Income and …

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … the rural non-farm employment in both Vietnam and India – which is consistent with its poverty reducing role of accessing … risks. When we disaggregate non-farm sector employment by its type, we find that poverty and vulnerability reducing effects …

, and the existence of senior poverty, this paper calls for policies to support citizens suffering from illness, family …

the results from national surveys to obtain a picture of the changes in rural labour allocation, income and poverty levels …

We apply the collective consumption model of Browning et al. (2010) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among … wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated two sets of poverty rates: one based on the … collective consumption model and one based on the traditional approach with a standard equivalence scale. Poverty among widowers …

In this article, we propose to calculate the size of the population living in poverty, measured through uni- and … multidimensional poverty indices, and the Gini coefficient using extended full (time plus money and informal earnings) incomes, from …-free estimate of the size of the population living in poverty and the Gini ratio overall. To show the effect informal activities …