SOCIAL ASSET AND SUSTAINABLE POVERTY REDUCTION: ANY NEXUS?

Asset Poverty: Scope for Rural Poverty Reduction through Policy Changes

REDUCTION THROUGH POLICY CHANGES This chapter deals with various strategies to improve the asset holdings of the rural poor. In most cases, if the poor get a bigger share of asset control or benefits, efficiency and economic growth also improve. For many types of asset, reducing inequality between rural and urban areas slows down outmigration to the cities, and increases rural farm and non-farm...

Poverty and sustainable transport

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran

Cash Transfers, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction (Draft) - - Discussion papers

Asset Insurance Markets and Chronic Poverty

This paper uses numerical dynamic stochastic programming methods to show that an insurance market can reduce the long-term extent and depth of poverty in a stylized, risk-prone rural region. This impact operates through both an ex post vulnerability reduction effect and an ex ante investment incentive effect. The result is not only lower poverty, but also substantial savings in public cash tran...