Household poverty
- Development interventions in Bangladesh - reaching the poor may require an individual rather than group-based approach
- A.R. Quisumbing; B. Baulch; N. Kumar / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- Programmes are rarely evaluated in terms of both short- and long-term impact. This paper provides an assessment of the long-term impact of three antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh on monetary and non-monetary measures of well-bei...
- 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, 2010
- 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 implementation modalities, on men&r...
- 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. Subsequently, only a small portion add...
- 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
- 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. This study examines the effects of f...
- 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 the mainstream of the society. Livi...
- Risks threatening Chinese households decrease participation in migration
- P.S. Ward; G.E. Shively / AgEcon Search, 2011
- 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 participation as responses to risk in rural Chi...
- 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
- 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 official poverty lines. The main obje...
- 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 poverty-oriented public works pro...
- 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
- 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 nutritional requirements of the average Ghan...
- The world is urbanising - time to focus on individual cities rather than whole economies?
- McKinsey Global Institute, 2011
- 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 more than 2000 leading cities in the ...
- Development interventions in Bangladesh - reaching the poor may require an individual rather than group-based approach
- A.R. Quisumbing; B. Baulch; N. Kumar / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- Programmes are rarely evaluated in terms of both short- and long-term impact. This paper provides an assessment of the long-term impact of three antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh on monetary and non-monetary measures of well-bei...
- 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, 2010
- 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 implementation modalities, on men&r...
- 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. Subsequently, only a small portion add...
- 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
- 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. This study examines the effects of f...
- 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 the mainstream of the society. Livi...
- Risks threatening Chinese households decrease participation in migration
- P.S. Ward; G.E. Shively / AgEcon Search, 2011
- 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 participation as responses to risk in rural Chi...
- 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
- 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 official poverty lines. The main obje...
- 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 poverty-oriented public works pro...
- 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
- 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 nutritional requirements of the average Ghan...
- The world is urbanising - time to focus on individual cities rather than whole economies?
- McKinsey Global Institute, 2011
- 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 more than 2000 leading cities in the ...
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
- The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
- The Rights and Resources Initiative is a coalition of international, regional and community organisations engaged in conservation, research and development. The RRI mission is to promote greater global action on pro-poor forest policy and market reforms to increase household and community ownership, control and benefits from forests and trees. Its programme areas are broken down into c...
