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Spatial segregation and human capital of impoverished areas in China : implications for livelihood resilience building

Li, Yuheng; Jia, Haowen; Xiao, Wei; Naumov, Alexey S. - In: Russian journal of economics 9 (2023) 4, pp. 424-439

achievements of poverty reduction. The paper uses 64 poverty-stricken counties in China's Sichuan province as the study area and …

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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households : experimental evidence from Uganda

Wieser, Christina; Bruhn, Miriam; Kinzinger, Johannes; … - 2019

finds no effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty. Overall, the findings add new evidence that mobile money can …

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Do cash transfers foster resilience? : evidence from rural Niger

Premand, Patrick; Stoeffler, Quentin - 2020

Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future climatic shocks. Cash transfer programs have had widely documented positive welfare impacts. They often also aim to offer protection against shocks, but their role in fostering...

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Does farmers' entrepreneurial competencies explain their household poverty status? : evidence from rural areas of Kwara State, Nigeria

Adeyonu, Abigail Gbemisola; Balogun, Olubunmi L.; Amao, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

Ending poverty in all its forms and in all places by 2030 is number one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …). However, in less than a decade to the time set for actualizing this goal, poverty is still pervasive in Nigeria and more … endemic among farmers in rural areas. Entrepreneurship is seen as a veritable tool to alleviate poverty and stimulate economic …

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The Poverty Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Unar, Mishel; González-Cossío, Teresa - 2013

-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. The intent-to-treat effect on poverty of cash …

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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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Determinants of poverty in rural cocoa farming communities in Ghana : unidimensional and multidimensional analysis

Agyeman-Boaten, Solomon Yaw - In: Cogent economics & finance 12 (2024) 1, pp. 1-21

Poverty is a rural phenomenon due to the dominance of subsistence farming in rural communities. This study compares the … estimates of unidimensional and multidimensional methodologies to analyse the factors that influence the poverty levels of cocoa … structured questionnaire to gather information from 386 cocoa farming households. The multidimensional poverty index and …

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Are "Internet+" tactics the key to poverty alleviation in China's rural ethnic minority areas? : empirical evidence from Sichuan Province

Yin, Xiang; Meng, Zhiyi; Yi, Xin; Wang, Yong; Hua, Xia - In: Financial innovation : FIN 7 (2021), pp. 1-19

China has made great efforts to alleviate poverty in rural ethnic minority areas and targeted achieving the poverty … China, have all implemented "Internet+" tactics since 2013, which have had the positive effect of increasing family revenues … comprehensively investigate whether "Internet+" tactics play a key role in poverty alleviation in Sichuan's rural ethnic minority …

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Migration, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in Rural China : Retrospect and Prospects

Giles, John - 2024

Rural-to-urban migration in China has transformed the lives of millions of rural residents. This paper reviews … issues that arise when studying migration in China, documents long-term migration trends, and presents evidence on the … impacts of migration on household earnings, consumption, and risk of falling into poverty within rural communities. The paper …

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China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2013

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and … pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic …). Rising inequality within the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high …

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