Education and the vulnerability to food inadequacy in Timor-Leste

This paper uses a simple empirical approach to estimate vulnerability to food...

Trade liberalisation and the poverty of nations: a review article

This paper aims to contribute to the contemporary policy debate on the role of...

Vulnerability and Responses to Risk in Rural India

Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of...

Vulnerability as Expected Poverty in Rural India

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models...

Self Help Group-Banking-Poverty Reduction Nexus: A Case Study of Uttarakhand State, India

In order to fight back poverty, the Central as well as States Governments in India have...

Elderly’s health shocks and household’s ex-ante poverty in India

Evidence on the association between traditional poverty measures and health is widely available in the...

Vulnerability to expected poverty in Afghanistan

This paper measures vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) an ex-anti measure...

Financing poverty eradication

This paper provides a review of various sources of finance for poverty reduction. Some salient findings are: declining significance of aid, especially for...

Is plantation agriculture good for the poor? Evidence from Indonesia’s palm oil expansion

I study the poverty impacts of plantation-based agricultural growth, focusing on...

Industrialisation, employment and poverty

In this paper we revisit the debate on the role of industrialisation in employment generation and poverty reduction in developing countries through an...