Poverty eradication is one of the global challenges, and land transfer provides an effective path to address farmers’ poverty; however, effect poverty reduction can show heterogeneity depending on location, household, head household. This study employs propensity value matching technique compare effects future alleviation among farm households, based vulnerability as expected poverty, using dat...

ABOUT LADDER LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutio...

The significance of social development and human wellbeing for all was recognized in the Copenhagen Declaration under the United Nations; hence, the first priorities of the twenty-first century are to achieve social development and to improve human wellbeing. Poverty, in particular, represents the core issue of social development and the urgent need to address a profound social problem that aff...

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and it is one of the most striking issues in the developing countries. Hence, there is a need to identify the vulnerable children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication, education for all, gender equality, c...

Countries of all shapes, sizes, and characteristics have been experimenting with various forms of social policy to reduce poverty. However, these experiments have not allowed governments to proclaim povertyfree zones and a universally agreed upon and proven strategy has not emerged to magically reduce poverty. Part of the reason for this difficulty in devising proven strategies is political sin...