Evidence is found of two distinct patterns of response to the onset of the recent drought in rural Ethiopia … expense of reduced consumption. These results are consistent with the existence of a poverty trap in household cattle holdings …

Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty and food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges in … Ethiopia. Using individual and household level data collected in rural Ethiopia, we examine if aspirations are strongly … strong evidence that, in rural Ethiopia, aspirations are positively associated with satisfaction in life and/or happiness …

This paper examines growth, poverty and chronic poverty in 15 Ethiopian villages between 1994 and 2004. Growth and … poverty reduction in these communities was substantial; headcount poverty fell from 48 to 35 percent. However, there is also … movement in and out of poverty over this period and a significant proportion of the sample was chronically poor. Chronic …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … and Chile experienced significant reductions of multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil …

the levels of income poverty of grower and non-grower household groups, following exogenous shocks, such as contract … results indicate that productivity gains have a broad-based income growth and poverty reduction potential, even greater than … control of domestic agents. While current poverty impacts of cotton cropping are relatively small, there is high potential for …

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the structure of rural poverty in China. Based on data from the China … Household Income Project (CHIP) in 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013, we analyze: 1.) Anti-poverty trends and problems during the … recent three decades. 2.) The structure of poverty during the recent period in comparison with previous periods. We consider …

This paper examines the impact of institutional changes on poverty reduction performance during the economic reform in … to implement poverty reductions in China. These institutions affect poverty evolution process through development … failure is indispensable in long run. China's miracle of great poverty reduction was mainly resulted from incessant …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … and a hypothetical agricultural shock, in a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia. The results suggest that while …

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data …, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings indicate that there is little differentiation in productive asset endowments …