Household poverty
- Avoiding chronic and transitory poverty: evidence from Egypt, 1997-99
- L. Haddad; A.U. Ahmed / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This paper uses a panel data of 347 households in Egypt to measure changes in household consumption between 1997 and 1999 and to identify causes behind the changes. It finds that per capita consumption decreased for the househo...
- Extension of government programmes vital to maintain food security
- P. Bhargava / Institute of Development Studies Jaipur, India, 2002
- This paper studies two aspects of food security in Rajasthan availability and access to food for households. The government ensures food security at the household level in two ways: through the Public Distribution System (PDS) and thr...
- Educated households in Uganda acheive better growth in living standards
- S. Appleton / Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
- Looks at the relationship between poverty and education in Uganda in the 1990s. It shows how growth in living standards and poverty reduction during that period was fastest for more educated households. Income growth at the hou...
- Chronic poverty and older people in the developing world
- A. Heslop; M. Gorman / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002
- The paper explores the relationship between old age and chronic poverty in the developing world, and the implications of this for achieving global targets for poverty reduction. For the majority of the world's older people, the...
- Towards an in-depth understanding of poverty in Kenya
- A Geda; N de Jong; G Mwabu; M.S. Kimenyi / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2001
- This paper attempts to address weakness in the the Government of Kenya's poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) of in-depth information for implementing and monitoring the strategy(PRSP). This paper aims to help the government to rea...
- PRSPs have not maintstreamed gender concerns: how can this be corrected?
- E. Zuckerman / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- This paper stresses that PRSPs have hardly mainstreamed gender concerns and the PRSP track record indicates that good intentions to engender PRSPs are insufficient. Only deliberate steps to engender PRSPs will translate good intention...
- Livelihoods and security issues in Malawi
- M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1999
- Ganyu is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial p...
- Economic incentives have powerful effect on work behavior of women with children in Kenya
- M. M. Lokshin; E. Glinskaya; M. Garcia / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- Paper analyses the effect of childcare costs on households' behaviour in Kenya. For households with children three to seven years of age, they model mothers' participation in paid work, participation in paid work of other household me...
- Community based rural development is more participatory, efficient and sustainable
- L. Coirolo; K. McLean; M. Mokoli; A. Ryan; P. Shah; M. Williams / Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
- This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based...
- Understanding the impact of social and economic change on child well-being in Bulgaria
- G. Roumiana; K. Alexandre / UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
- The paper investigates the changes that occurred over the last decade in three dimensions of child welfare recognised as fundamental child rights - economic well-being, health and education. Then it concentrates on particularly vulner...
- Chronic poverty and older people in the developing world
- A. Heslop; M. Gorman / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002
- The paper explores the relationship between old age and chronic poverty in the developing world, and the implications of this for achieving global targets for poverty reduction. For the majority of the world's older people, the...
- Towards an in-depth understanding of poverty in Kenya
- A Geda; N de Jong; G Mwabu; M.S. Kimenyi / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2001
- This paper attempts to address weakness in the the Government of Kenya's poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) of in-depth information for implementing and monitoring the strategy(PRSP). This paper aims to help the government to rea...
- PRSPs have not maintstreamed gender concerns: how can this be corrected?
- E. Zuckerman / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- This paper stresses that PRSPs have hardly mainstreamed gender concerns and the PRSP track record indicates that good intentions to engender PRSPs are insufficient. Only deliberate steps to engender PRSPs will translate good intention...
- Livelihoods and security issues in Malawi
- M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1999
- Ganyu is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial p...
- Economic incentives have powerful effect on work behavior of women with children in Kenya
- M. M. Lokshin; E. Glinskaya; M. Garcia / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- Paper analyses the effect of childcare costs on households' behaviour in Kenya. For households with children three to seven years of age, they model mothers' participation in paid work, participation in paid work of other household me...
- Community based rural development is more participatory, efficient and sustainable
- L. Coirolo; K. McLean; M. Mokoli; A. Ryan; P. Shah; M. Williams / Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
- This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based...
- Understanding the impact of social and economic change on child well-being in Bulgaria
- G. Roumiana; K. Alexandre / UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
- The paper investigates the changes that occurred over the last decade in three dimensions of child welfare recognised as fundamental child rights - economic well-being, health and education. Then it concentrates on particularly vulner...
- The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't : an African case study
- Christiaan Grootaert; Ravi Kanbur; Gi - Taik Oh / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- In urban areas of Cote d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned matters most. Empirical inves...
- The green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh
- Kirsten Westergaard; Abul Hossain / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996
- This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. The...
- Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania
- M. Luisa Ferreira / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- Growth attributed to structural adjustment has benefited the population generally, shifting a significant portion of the population from below the poverty line to above it. Only that smaller fraction of the population with extremely l...
- 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...
