Household poverty
- Empirical studies on social capital in rural Bangladesh
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Is economic well-being related to one's social networks? These two papers explore the links between social capital and well being among households in rural Bangladesh.
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- Social capital helps women in Bangladesh to invest in their own and their children’s nutritional status
- ( N. Kumar;A.R. Quisumbing / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action , 2012)
- In Bangladesh, rural households headed by women are more likely to be among the poorest. This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different i...
- Social protection programmes do not focus on the needs of the elderly
- ( D.E. Bloom;E. Jimenez;L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health , 2011)
- Despite the growth and extent of social protection programmes (SP) in both developed and developing countries, most emerging economies have systems that are only just coming into existence. Subs...
- Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty
- ( J.O. LAWAL;B.T. OMONONA;O.D. OYINLEYE / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of government....
- Older women in India face marginalisation
- ( Agewell Foundation , 2011)
- India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+). This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from t...
- Risks threatening Chinese households decrease participation in migration
- ( P.S. Ward;G.E. Shively / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participat...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- ( A. Barrientos;J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester , 2011)
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The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households
in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack ... - Evaluating the impact of the Improving Livelihoods through Public Works Programme (ILTPWP) in achieving its stated objectives.
- ( E. W. Chirwa (ed);P.M. Mvula (ed);B.M. Dulani (ed) / , 2004)
- Public works employment programmes have become an important tool for helping the most vulnerable groups to move out of poverty in Malawi. Malawi is one of the countries in southern Africa to implement...
- Can the nutrient intake of Ghanaians be increased without any significant effect on food expenditure?
- ( F.A. Darko;B. Allen;J. Mazunda / AgEcon Search , 2010)
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Attaining the daily required nutritional recommendations is a major challenge in Ghana. This paper is tries to determine the cheapest basket of food items that satisfy the recommended daily nutriti...
- The world is urbanising - time to focus on individual cities rather than whole economies?
- ( McKinsey Global Institute , 2011)
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Half of the world populations live in cities. Yet, over the next 15 years, the center of gravity of the urban world will move south, and even more decisively, east. This report draws insights from ...
- Engineers respond to population increases with a set of Engineering Development Goals
- ( T. Fox (ed) / Institution of Mechanical Engineers , 2011)
- Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the ...
