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 …

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 …

The objective of the paper is to update the small area estimates of poverty and inequality for rural Vietnam. The new … estimates of province and district level poverty for the year 2006, when combined with estimates available for 1999, allow for … examination of how poverty has changed in rural Vietnam over the past seven years. The analysis finds that all provinces across …

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

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …

This paper examines China?s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income … describes the dibao program, estimates the program?s impact on poverty, and carries out targeting analysis. The analysis finds … poverty, in part because the number of beneficiaries is small relative to the number of poor. Conventional targeting analysis …

-based poverty program in the world, namely China's Di Bao program, which aims to assure a minimum income through means …The central governments of many developing countries have chosen to decentralize their anti-poverty programs, in the …

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

Conditional cash transfers are being heralded as effective tools against the intergenerational transmission of poverty …