Does Non-Farm Income Improve The Poverty and Income Inequality Among Agricultural Household In Rural Kedah?

中国城乡差距与贫困陷阱：基于地级市的分析

Urban-rural gap and poverty traps in China: A prefecture level analysis

本文基于地级市数据研究中国城乡收入动态及区域不平等，发现收入分布具有持久性和不流动性，城乡收入趋于各自稳态，且存在地理贫困陷阱，需加强政策干预以缩小差距。

Effective alleviation of rural poverty depends on the interplay between productivity, nutrients, water and soil quality

Most of the world poorest people come from rural areas and depend on their local ecosystems for food production. Recent research has highlighted the importance of self-reinforcing dynamics between low soil quality and persistent poverty but little is known on how they affect poverty alleviation. We investigate how the intertwined dynamics of household assets, nutrients (especially phosphorus), water and soil quality influence food production and determine the conditions for escape from poverty for the rural poor. We have developed a suite of dynamic, multidimensional poverty trap models of hou…

建模分析水生植被清除如何以及为何能让农村家庭摆脱贫困-疾病陷阱

Modeling how and why aquatic vegetation removal can free rural households from poverty-disease traps

本研究构建结合微观经济与疾病生态的生物经济模型，验证塞内加尔农村清除水生植被制堆肥的生态干预可降低血吸虫病感染、提升收入，打破贫困-疾病陷阱。

Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs

The rigorous evaluation of anti-poverty programs is key to the fight against global poverty. Traditional evaluation approaches rely heavily on repeated in-person field surveys to measure changes in economic well-being and thus program effects. However, this is known to be costly, time-consuming, and often logistically challenging. Here we provide the first evidence that we can conduct such program evaluations based solely on high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning methods. Our application estimates changes in household welfare in the context of a recent anti-poverty program in rura…

Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in a Peasant Farming Community Facing Rapid Change: A Critical Examination

Environmental degradation is a major global problem. Its impacts are not just environmental, but also economic, with degradation recognised as a key cause of reduced agricultural productivity and rural poverty in the developing world. The degradation literature typically emphasises common property or open access natural resources, and how perverse incentives or missing institutions lead optimising private actors to degrade them. By contrast, the present paper considers degradation occurring on private farms in peasant communities. This is a critical yet delicate issue, given the poverty of suc…

Impact of Financial Inclusion on the Socio-Economic Status of Rural and Urban Households of Vulnerable Sections in Karnataka

Financial inclusion and inclusive growth are the buzzwords today. Inclusive growth empowers people belonging to vulnerable sections. This in turn depends upon a variety of factors, the most important being financial inclusion, which plays a strategic role in promoting inclusive growth and helps in reducing poverty by providing regular and reliable sources of finance to the vulnerable sections. In this direction, the Government of India in its drive for financial inclusion has taken several measures to increase the access to and availing of formal financial services by unbanked households. The …