The relationship between poverty incidence and road development is analyzed in this paper, in the context of rural Laos …. The results indicate that improving road access is an effective way of reducing rural poverty. Between 1997-98 and 2002 …-03, rural poverty incidence in Laos declined by 9.5 per cent. The results suggest that about 13 per cent of this decline can be …

participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …

This paper studies the eect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ household … that higher rice prices either increase or decrease the poverty head-count ratio, depending on the choice of the poverty … line. However, if we consider the per capita income gap as a measure of poverty, we always observe that higher rice prices …

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset … the economy. We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth … and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality. We also identify growth acceleration episodes …

This paper measures vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) an ex-anti measure of well-being for Afghanistan using a … is vulnerable to poverty in near future compared to 42 per cent of the population who currently live under the poverty … line. Our results show that poverty and vulnerability vary across geography and seasons and interestingly, areas most …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …

by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …