Im Mai 1992 gab die kenianische Regierung die Freigabe der Milchproduktepreise und die Aufhebung des Verkaufsmonopols von sterilisierter Milch an die städtischen Bereiche durch die Kenya Cooperatives Creameries bekannt. Der Beitrag untersucht den Einfluß dieser Maßnahme auf den...

This paper uses data from a survey of two hundred and fifty cattle households in three cattle keeping systems; intensive, semi-intensive and extensive systems to estimate the value of non-market, socio-economic benefits of cattle in Kenya. These benefits of cattle keeping are of special...

In India, poverty reduction is one of the major objectives of economic development programmes. Though, India was the first country in the world to define poverty as the total per capita expenditure of the lowest expenditure class, which is required to ascertain a minimum intake of 2400 kcal/day...

The measures of poverty involves a) the specification of the threshold income level below which a person is considered poor (the poverty line) and b) construction of an index to measure the intensity and severity of poverty suffered by those whose income is below the poverty line. Sen(1976) has...