Poverty remains one of the most pressing problems facing the world; the mechanisms through which poverty arises and perpetuates itself, however, are not well understood. Here, we examine the evidence for the hypothesis that poverty may have particular psychological consequences that can lead to economic behaviors that make it difficult to escape poverty. The evidence indicates that poverty caus...

Poverty is likely to deepen as the AIDS epidemic takes its course, with households being caught up in a vicious cycle of poverty and HIV/AIDS. This paper shows that affected households are poorer than non-affected households, regardless of whether income is measured at the household, per capita or adult equivalent level and regardless of the poverty line or poverty measure employed in measuring...

Increasingly developing world governments are being re-structured to improve governance and to alleviate poverty, and this also applies to government departments associated with the registration and cadastral systems. The link between cadastral reform, good governance and poverty alleviation will be explored by reviewing some of the recent thinking in this area, and by drawing on experience wit...

Agricultural households use assets not only for production as a source of income generation but also for protecting consumption from negative economic shocks. We show a model of household dynamic decisions on investment in agricultural productive assets under credit constraints and non-convex production technology. We test and estimate the model with data from Kagera, Tanzania in order to show ...

Poverty cannot be handled by individuals alone; they must work together with the government, society, and state. Entrepreneurship is believed to driving force of economy, opening up creating job opportunities as a solution poverty alleviation. The aims this study were describe effect integrated entrepreneurship education on multidimensional alleviation housewives in Krendang area, West Jakarta,...

Modular products have the potential to significantly reduce the financial risks associated with purchasing an income generating product in the developing world. Their modular nature allows a product to adapt to the changing needs of the customer (changing views of affordability due to increase in income potential). In a previous work by the authors, an optimization-based modular product design ...

China has followed a modern technology oriented approach and has relied predominantly on its public agricultural research system to ensure the national food security. However, national food security not necessary mean food security for all. Poverty and food insecurity are still issues in China. The impact of agricultural research on poverty alleviation has increasingly drawn attention from the ...