Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty in rural Malawi. This study … 2010 two-fifths of all households had a chance of at least 40 percent of falling below the poverty line in the future. The … results show that many households in rural Malawi are vulnerable to poverty, although, as with many other studies of rural …

-making under conditions of extreme poverty, and risk. The author argues that publicly observable celebrations have two functions …-making competitions. The first role is central to maintaining the networks essential for social relationships, and coping with poverty …

economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization … poverty with little, or no outside assistance, despite severe resource constraints. Their impact could be enormous if external …

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 …

Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Argentina. This paper used a rural dataset collected by … the World Bank in 2003. Findings show that extreme income poverty in rural areas reached 39 percent of the people or 200 …,000-250,000 indigent families. These families tend to: be large, and young, and to escape from poverty as they mature and children leave …

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. The authors claim … participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. They test the model using data from the Uganda National Household …

This paper analyzes poverty in Haiti based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole … country and representative at the regional level. Using a USD1 a day extreme poverty line, the analysis reveals that 49 … percent of Haitian households live in absolute poverty. Twenty, 56, and 58 percent of households in metropolitan, urban, and …

The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to …