Search Results - subject:"Chronic Poverty."

Vulnerability in African small‐scale fishing communities

Mills, David; Béné, Christophe; Ovie, Solomon; … - In: Journal of International Development 23 (2011) 2, pp. 308-313

Fishing communities are often recognised as being amongst the poorest in developing countries, and interventions targeted at improving resource status seen as central in the fight against poverty. A series of field assessments focusing on vulnerability conducted in two communities in Mali and...

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On the contribution of the three I's of poverty to chronic and transitory poverty

Israeli, Osnat; Weber, Michal - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 2, pp. 1496-1508

the basis of administrative data during the period 1995-2006. The results show that chronic poverty is 57% of total …

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Social transfers and chronic poverty: objectives, design, reach and impact

Barrientos, Armando; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

three policy questions: first, do programme objectives address chronic poverty? Second, are programme design features – the …

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The dynamics of poverty transitions in Mexico

Fernández-Ramos, Jennifer; Garcia-Guerra, Ana K.; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 11, pp. 1082-1095

64 percent are transiently poor. The results show that variables directly related to chronic poverty are belonging to an …

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A research note on the poverty dynamics and cost of poverty inequality : case study of Indonesia

Mai, Tung; Mahadevan, Renuka - In: Economic analysis and policy : EAP ; journal of the … 49 (2016), pp. 100-107

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The nexus between poverty and deprivation in Vietnam

Mahadevan, Renuka; Hoang, Viet-Ngu - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 38 (2016) 2, pp. 290-303

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The dynamics of poverty transitions in Mexico

Fernández-Ramos, Jennifer; Garcia-Guerra, Ana K.; … - In: International journal of social economics 43 (2016) 11, pp. 1082-1095

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Attitudes to Chronic Poverty in the "Global Village"

Barrientos, Armando; Neff, Daniel - 2010

The paper explores attitudes to chronic poverty in a cross-section of developed and developing countries based on data … that poverty is chronic. This paper also explores the factors that influence public attitudes to chronic poverty and finds …

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Empirical issues in lifetime poverty measurement

Hoy, Michael; Thompson, Brennan Scott; Zheng, Buhong - 2010

This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the lifetime experience of individuals rather than simply taking a static or cross-sectional perspective. Our approach follows the theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which...

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Combating chronic poverty in Uganda: towards a new strategy

Ssewanyana, Sarah N. - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2010

2008, the paper provides new evidence on chronic poverty in Uganda. While progress in reducing poverty rates has been …. Four in every ten households are chronically poor of which 44.9 percent are living in extreme chronic poverty. About 37 … households to engage in agricultural activities. While at the aggregate level chronic poverty is significantly more prevalent …

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