Social protection
- Accessing credit can lead to a decline in income for rural smallholders
- A. Diagne; M. Zeller / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- This report analyzes the determinants of access to credit in Malawi and its impact on farm and nonfarm income and on household food security and seeks to quantify the relationship between the demand for formal loans and that for infor...
- What lessons can be learnt from the Vietnamese success story?
- N. Minot; F Golleti / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- The main objective of this report is to examine the new set of food policy issues facing Viet Nam as a result of its transformation into a major rice exporter and its transition toward a market economy. In particular, the report aims ...
- HIV/AIDS impacts food and livelihood security
- S.I. Michiels / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001
- This paper aims to provide a suggested framework of action for FAO' s engagement in HIV/AIDS prevention and impact-mitigation in rural Sub Saharan Africa at the community and household level. It presents a list of potential activities...
- Raising household energy prices in Poland : who gains? who loses?
- Caroline L. Freund; Christine I. Wallich / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Programs that subsidize household energy prices in the transition economies help the rich more than they help the poor. Not only do the wealthy consume more energy in absolute terms than the poor, but they also spend a larger portion ...
- Food-for Work policies and income diversification: comparing Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya
- C.B. Barrett; M. Bezuneh; A. Aboud / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
- This paper presents evidence on the effects of two different sorts of policy shocks on observed income diversification patterns in rural Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya. Research results: In Côte d'Ivoire, ma...
- Petty-traders in peri-urban Africa: burgeoning class of entrepreneurs or underclass of underemployed and unemployed?
- P.D. Little / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
- This article explores the increasing proliferation of petty traders, in Africa's sprawling peri-urban areas. Conclusions: The proliferation of petty traders in most peri-urban areas can be interpreted as an unhea...
- Assessing poverty through the prism of safety nets: an Indonesian case-study
- S. Sumarto; A. Suryahadi; L. Pritchett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- The "safety net" discussed in this paper guarantees against a poverty fall past an absolute level; the "safety rope" guarantees against a fall of more than a given distance. The safety net is concerned with an increase in poverty; the...
- Why do grandmothers prefer girls? The effects of pensions on child nutrition
- E. Duflo / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000
- This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded ...
- The importance of replacing family allowances with child care subsidies
- M. M. Lokshin / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- The paper models household demand for child care, mothers' labour force participation and working hours, in Russia. The model estimates the effects of the price of child care, mother's wage, and household income on household behaviour...
- Coping with livelihood risk
- S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
- This paper discusses the different strategies households use to cope with their livelihood risk. It focuses on income-based strategies, on assets as self-insurance and on informal insurance arrangements. It states that households are ...
- HIV/AIDS impacts food and livelihood security
- S.I. Michiels / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001
- This paper aims to provide a suggested framework of action for FAO' s engagement in HIV/AIDS prevention and impact-mitigation in rural Sub Saharan Africa at the community and household level. It presents a list of potential activities...
- Raising household energy prices in Poland : who gains? who loses?
- Caroline L. Freund; Christine I. Wallich / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Programs that subsidize household energy prices in the transition economies help the rich more than they help the poor. Not only do the wealthy consume more energy in absolute terms than the poor, but they also spend a larger portion ...
- Food-for Work policies and income diversification: comparing Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya
- C.B. Barrett; M. Bezuneh; A. Aboud / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
- This paper presents evidence on the effects of two different sorts of policy shocks on observed income diversification patterns in rural Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya. Research results: In Côte d'Ivoire, ma...
- Petty-traders in peri-urban Africa: burgeoning class of entrepreneurs or underclass of underemployed and unemployed?
- P.D. Little / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
- This article explores the increasing proliferation of petty traders, in Africa's sprawling peri-urban areas. Conclusions: The proliferation of petty traders in most peri-urban areas can be interpreted as an unhea...
- Assessing poverty through the prism of safety nets: an Indonesian case-study
- S. Sumarto; A. Suryahadi; L. Pritchett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- The "safety net" discussed in this paper guarantees against a poverty fall past an absolute level; the "safety rope" guarantees against a fall of more than a given distance. The safety net is concerned with an increase in poverty; the...
- Why do grandmothers prefer girls? The effects of pensions on child nutrition
- E. Duflo / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000
- This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded ...
- The importance of replacing family allowances with child care subsidies
- M. M. Lokshin / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- The paper models household demand for child care, mothers' labour force participation and working hours, in Russia. The model estimates the effects of the price of child care, mother's wage, and household income on household behaviour...
- Coping with livelihood risk
- S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
- This paper discusses the different strategies households use to cope with their livelihood risk. It focuses on income-based strategies, on assets as self-insurance and on informal insurance arrangements. It states that households are ...
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- Implications for the design and targetting of more formal safety nets
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks. Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out...
- Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
- An interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies
- Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC)
- The Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) is a six year global research programme exploring livelihoods, basic services and social protection in conflict-affected situations. Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), SLRC was established in 2011 with the aim of strengthening the evidence base and informing policy and practice around livelihoods and servic...
