Household poverty
- Do cash transfers reduce gender conflicts within households?
- R Slater; M Mphale / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash transfer programmes may have significa...
- Further evidence on the human development impact of unconditional programmes
- M. Samson; C. Heinrich; M. Williams / United Nations Children's Fund, 2008
- South Africa’s Child Support Grant, an unconditional social transfer programme, was originally designed to reduce poverty and promote social development for poor children under the age of seven. This study examines the prog...
- Can non-timber forest product trade resolve problems of development and conservation in the developing world?
- K. Kusters / Ecology and Society, 2006
- This article evaluates the extent to which Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. The analysis is based on a standardised expert-judgment assessment of the livelihood and e...
- Implications of wild food use for conservation and development in Democratic Republic of Congo
- E. de Merode; K. Homewood; G. Cowlishaw / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- Wild foods including bushmeat have long been recognised as important famine foods underpinning coping strategies for poor people. Yet there is mounting pressure from conservation agencies to limit the extraction of wild resources, par...
- Access to HIV counselling and testing must be improved in rural South Africa
- Karl Peltzer; Gladys Matseke; Thembile Mzolo / BioMed Central, 2009
- With over 30% of women and men in the South Africa's 2005 national HIV household survey indicating that they had previously been tested for HIV (of which 91% were aware of their test results), this paper published by BioMed Centr...
- Reducing poverty among elderly Indians would lead to significantly reduced disability rates
- M.K. Pandey / Australia South Asia Research Centre, 2009
- In India, more than one quarter of the Indian aged population (age 60 upwards) is disabled. Age-specific disability rates and the severity of disablement increases with age. Indian data also suggests that that 40 percent o...
- Relationships between household characteristics and food expenditure patterns in Malaysia
- Y. S. Tey / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008
- This paper analyses the food expenditure patterns of different income groups and the relationships between household characteristics and expenditure patterns in Malaysia. Rising income is expected to lead to a diversification in consu...
- Expensive funerals cause household hardship
- A. Case; A. Menendez / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
- In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral. Loans might be taken out w...
- Tackling poverty in MENA with a long-term approach to growth and employment
- M. Messkoub / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
- Despite steady growth in most Arab Middle East and North Africa countries, the region has achieved very modest gains in reducing poverty or increasing employment. In fact, poverty and unemployment, especially among the young, are wide...
- Poverty reduction through livelihoods diversification in rural Tanzania
- J. de Weerdt / Journal of Development Studies, 2009
- In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are able to escape from poverty, while ot...
- Do cash transfers reduce gender conflicts within households?
- R Slater; M Mphale / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash transfer programmes may have significa...
- Further evidence on the human development impact of unconditional programmes
- M. Samson; C. Heinrich; M. Williams / United Nations Children's Fund, 2008
- South Africa’s Child Support Grant, an unconditional social transfer programme, was originally designed to reduce poverty and promote social development for poor children under the age of seven. This study examines the prog...
- Can non-timber forest product trade resolve problems of development and conservation in the developing world?
- K. Kusters / Ecology and Society, 2006
- This article evaluates the extent to which Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. The analysis is based on a standardised expert-judgment assessment of the livelihood and e...
- Implications of wild food use for conservation and development in Democratic Republic of Congo
- E. de Merode; K. Homewood; G. Cowlishaw / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- Wild foods including bushmeat have long been recognised as important famine foods underpinning coping strategies for poor people. Yet there is mounting pressure from conservation agencies to limit the extraction of wild resources, par...
- Access to HIV counselling and testing must be improved in rural South Africa
- Karl Peltzer; Gladys Matseke; Thembile Mzolo / BioMed Central, 2009
- With over 30% of women and men in the South Africa's 2005 national HIV household survey indicating that they had previously been tested for HIV (of which 91% were aware of their test results), this paper published by BioMed Centr...
- Reducing poverty among elderly Indians would lead to significantly reduced disability rates
- M.K. Pandey / Australia South Asia Research Centre, 2009
- In India, more than one quarter of the Indian aged population (age 60 upwards) is disabled. Age-specific disability rates and the severity of disablement increases with age. Indian data also suggests that that 40 percent o...
- Relationships between household characteristics and food expenditure patterns in Malaysia
- Y. S. Tey / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008
- This paper analyses the food expenditure patterns of different income groups and the relationships between household characteristics and expenditure patterns in Malaysia. Rising income is expected to lead to a diversification in consu...
- Expensive funerals cause household hardship
- A. Case; A. Menendez / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
- In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral. Loans might be taken out w...
- Tackling poverty in MENA with a long-term approach to growth and employment
- M. Messkoub / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
- Despite steady growth in most Arab Middle East and North Africa countries, the region has achieved very modest gains in reducing poverty or increasing employment. In fact, poverty and unemployment, especially among the young, are wide...
- Poverty reduction through livelihoods diversification in rural Tanzania
- J. de Weerdt / Journal of Development Studies, 2009
- In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are able to escape from poverty, while ot...
- 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...
