equivalence scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of poverty and its distribution across households and … assistance resources) it is important to refine our understanding of the extent to which poverty measures and the resulting …

We summarize existing theoretical claims linking poverty to rates of deforestation and then examine this linkage … controlling for this, impacts of poverty per se are confounded by richer areas being different from the areas inhabited by the …’ characteristics, we find that poorer areas are cleared more rapidly. This result suggests that poverty reduction aids forest …

This paper analyses recent patterns of migration and poverty in Albania, a country that - following the collapse of the … characterises spatial patterns in the distribution of poverty and migration at a high level of geographic disaggregation. The … to be associated in opposite ways to observed poverty and welfare levels. While poverty acts as a push factor for …

This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which … changes in poverty. Second, it allows distinguishing between chronic and transient poverty, by defining as chronically poor … those households whose level of consumption sustainable in the long term lies below the poverty line. This definition of …

We review claims about the potential for carbon markets that link both payments for carbon services and poverty levels … sequestration, and if land users were poor could conserve forest while addressing rural poverty. However, we find poorer areas are …

Land use change is a key requirement for improving rural incomes and making a significant reduction in poverty levels … land use changes required for poverty alleviation coincide with that required for carbon sequestration, significant … is significant potential for sequestration payments to contribute to poverty alleviation, considerable effort will be …

taken to reduce their vulnerability to becoming food insecure in the future. Most of the research on poverty in Nepal during … the past decades has focused exclusively on determining the poverty line and calculating the proportion of people living … under this line, rather than unmasking the characteristics, particularly the locational aspects, of poverty other than the …

national antipoverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, which is a scheme designed to compensate farmers …