The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other … results to impute income in the MECOVI 2007 survey. In this way, we calculate various measures of poverty and indigence, and … poverty and indigence in Bolivia, however this effect is small. The most important results are evident in the headcount index …

This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general … which favor nontradable activities over export agriculture and manufacturing thereby increasing rural and national poverty … growth, and poverty is less straightforward than simple models of the resource curse suggest. Taking Ghana as a stylized …

This paper analyses the effect of food price changes on household consumption (welfare) in Tanzania during the 1990s … (first order) and dynamic (full price) effects of price changes. The three rounds of the Tanzania Household Budget Survey … (prices) and household budget shares. These are then utilized, first to evaluate the distributional impacts of the relative …

data from the Tanzania Household Budget Survey for the years 1991/92, 2000/01 and 2007. The static analysis of the …This paper analyses the association between household characteristics' in particular size and location, and for the … household head age, sector of employment (and the tariff applicable to that sector) and education - and household income using …

poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic … government, both sides agree on the facts of rural poverty. However in both cases rural poverty is described using measures which … locations in Tanzania. The result of these findings is a compilation which is fascinating in itself and important for the …

national development agenda and poverty reduction strategies. It covers issues related to agriculture, forest and urban lands … poverty. Land reform is the critical policy intervention in the agrarian and urban sector. The implementation of the program …

like for Africa? The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank has set goals to end … extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub … redistribution, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our "best case" scenario of accelerated growth …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy … income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some …

-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet … exacerbate these problems. By calling attention to growing household vulnerability to energy and water insecurities, particularly …