This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs based on the … of poverty as a consequence of such shocks. Using alternative specifications that take into account both direct and … policy simulations on land and non-land asset transfers are carried out. A reorientation of anti-poverty strategy is …

development, in particular that one consequence of child poverty is to hold back cognitive development. This paper investigates …

. Using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measure of poverty among pensioners, we find that allowing for implicit claim costs … incurred by benefit recipients raises the measured degree of poverty by not more than 16%. …

revolution. The fundamental problems facing these countries are the same – poverty, unemployment, rising cost of living, regional … situation. The problems are very much the same – poverty, unemployment, rising cost of living, regional disparities and youth … disillusionment. But here they are compounded by an ethnic conflict and violence, which makes the challenges more complex and the …