, complicate access to services ever further, limit the use of urban space, and place considerable pressure on household budgets … assist in the development of human and social capital and economic opportunities, the alleviation of poverty or the …

influence travel behaviour (e.g. high levels of under-and unemployment, limited household resources, low levels of private …

and economic difficulties. Knowledge of the burden of transport expenditure in the household budget seems essential for … household expenditure rises. Conversely, the share of transport decreases as income rises when analysing travel survey data. The … household budget quintile, the concentration indices for public and private household transport expenditure and the average …

poverty-environment hypothesis since household economic wealth is a significant and negative determinant of firewood …

-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … applied to test for the statistical significance of all our findings. Across household types, single parents with children … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the …

's capabilities approach presents poverty as a deprivation of elementary functioning in terms of housing, health, employment, leisure … poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as … economic capabilities (employment, leisure) are those which explain the high level of total poverty. These results are …

The official poverty data fall short of properly informing public policy and governance concerning the progress, or … lack of it, in achieving the country’s commitment of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the incidence of poverty and hunger …. Imposing consistency in poverty estimation shows that the poverty trend is actually even more alarming than what the official …

This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to … more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The …

This paper discusses data from a survey and in-depth interviews on elite perceptions of poverty in Brazil. De Swaan … tried to identify the circumstances under which elites are willing to mobilize resources in order to promote poverty …’s thesis do apply: that poverty is a problem for the rich in the sense that it generates negative externalities that they would …

poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and … trade liberalization for a sample of developing countries, and the more limited World Bank Global Poverty Monitoring … Database for an exploratory analysis of the influence of these variables on levels of poverty. The cross-section results …