Climate change is associated with an increasing frequency of extreme weather events, which can severely reduce people's welfare, especially in the Global South. Here, we analyse the impacts of rainfall shocks - including lacking and excessive rains - on economic and social outcomes, using...

I investigate the intra-household labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for saving. Despite sizable program-job take-up, the...

Developing policies to foster inclusive rural transformation processes requires better evidence on how climate change is affecting the livelihoods and economic behaviours of vulnerable rural people, including women, youths and people living in poverty. In particular, there is little comparative,...

Many people in rural Africa still rely on smallholder agriculture as their main source of livelihood. Yet pursuing other economic activities beyond farming to diversify incomes becomes increasingly important. In this paper, we focus on the role of people's income aspirations in the process of...

The problem of land inequality has attracted renewed interest in the development literature due to its potential effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is...

We investigate the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at 62 poorest districts in Vietnam, analyzing multiple datasets spanning the past 20 years with a regression discontinuity design with district fixed effects. While we do not find significant program effects on...

Rural-to-urban migration in China has transformed the lives of millions of rural residents. This paper reviews empirical evidence on the impacts of migration on the welfare of individuals and households in rural communities. After first discussing the evolution of institutions that have shaped...

Livelihood sources in rural Africa are diverse and dynamic. Using recent primary data from four African countries - Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia - we consider regions with different conditions related to climate, agroecology, infrastructure, and nature conservation to analyze the role of...

This paper examines the impact of access to markets on livestock-related income of herder households in Mongolia. The empirical findings show that reducing the distance to markets by ten kilometers increases household income by 1.0 percent on average.

This research investigates the impact of digital village development on clean energy poverty (CEP) in rural areas within the context of energy and digitalization transition in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Utilizing the Index of Digital Rural County (IDRC) and China Family Panel Studies...

We investigate the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at 62 poorest districts in Vietnam, analyzing multiple datasets spanning the past 20 years with a regression discontinuity design with district fixed effects. While we do not find significant program effects on...

Au Togo, les disparités entre les sexes se manifestent dans de nombreux domaines dimensions. L'inégalité commence dès l’enfance, lorsque les filles sont désavantagés dans l’accès à l’éducation en raison de la prévalence Normes sociales et rôles de genre. Il se poursuit dans...

Can entrepreneurship programs be successful labor market policies for the poor? A large share of workers in developing countries are self-employed (mostly own-account workers without paid employees, often interchangeably used as micro entrepreneurs). Their share among all workers has not changed...

The issue of land inequality has garnered renewed interest in development literature due to its potential impact on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is a crucial sustainable development goal, and a clearer understanding of the factors contributing to poverty is essential for...

The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand, poor households depend on environmental resources as additional income sources or as additional household products. On the other hand, natural resource extraction further...

Poverty is a rural phenomenon due to the dominance of subsistence farming in rural communities. This study compares the estimates of unidimensional and multidimensional methodologies to analyse the factors that influence the poverty levels of cocoa farming households predominantly in rural...

Vulnerability assessments by developing Farmers’ Distress Index (FDI) can play a vital role in the design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies directed towards the various structural changes in the recent era — for those who depend on agriculture for their livelihood and...

Micro finance is well-organized and successful instrument to decrease poverty. Although microfinance Sector in Pakistan has recognize important development and attain little cost formations. The major reason of study is to forecast that how Micro finance decreases poverty or not and method of...

Ensuring global food security while minimizing negative effects on the environment is still a paramount challenge for sustainable transition. Meanwhile, access to affordable and clean energy services is crucial for accelerating the transition of sustainable agriculture. However, the impact of...

This paper uses nighttime light imagery and gridded population datasets to estimate 2000–2020 rural poverty rates for Venezuela at the state and municipality levels. Then, I examine if there has been a significant change in rural poverty during the economic collapse ongoing since 2013–2014....

Ensuring food security with minimal energy consumption in agriculture is still a paramount problem in China. Meanwhile, access to affordable and clean energy services in the rural areas is crucial for accelerating the transition of sustainable agriculture. The impact of rural energy poverty...

The contribution of agriculture to the Indonesian economy is in decline, but the sector still provides employment to a relatively large number of Indonesians. Because of low productivity, poverty has become the main social issue for farmers. Farming is concentrated in rural areas, and so farmers...

We wrote, produced, and implemented a randomized intervention of a five-episode soap opera focusing on attitudes related to trust and savings. It was shown to females living in poor and violence-scarred rural areas and who received the national conditional cash transfer. We find that one year...

Exploring the influence of farmland transfer on poverty among the mid-aged and elderly rural households is of great value in preventing them from returning to poverty and in solving the problem of rural poverty. Based on the propensity score matching with differences in differences (PSM-DID)...

Water is critical for agriculture in developing countries and climate change has created extreme weather events that push farmers into poverty. In this study, we first examine the role of yearround irrigation at village level in ensuring irrigation at household level and helping farmers to cope...

Exploring the spatial distribution pattern of rural relative poverty and its influencing factors is of great significance for solving the problem of poverty. This research calculates the relative poverty level of rural areas in China by using POVCAL software of the World Bank according to income...