Applying the Shapley decomposition to unit-record household survey data, this paper investigates the trends and causes of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and shifts in relative income distribution. The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measures are computed and decomposed, with different datasets and alternative assumptions...

Abstract Due to seawater intrusion into the Indus delta, Pakistan under changing climate scenarios, local communities of delta are threat land and livelihood. The present study was initiated analyze community perceptions about social ecological change vulnerability in Pakistan. About 500 permanent residents were interviewed using a well-structured questionnaire. IBM SPSS software used data base...

Using real-time data from the University of Luxembourg’s COME-HERE nationally representative panel survey, covering more than 8,000 individuals across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden, author investigates how income distributions poverty rates have changed January to September 2020. The finds that increased on average in all countries May partially recovered September. increase is hete...

Smallholder farming households represent one of groups most exposed to the vagaries climate change because their production and livelihood depend on climatic elements. This study assessed effect adaptive capacity smallholder households' food security in Oyo State, Nigeria. Data from 246 were analysed using factor analysis generate Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Index (CCACI), Foster-Greer-Tho...

<p><strong>Background.</strong> Poverty is a state or condition in which person community lacks the capital required to meet their needs. Whereas, social has been described as vital asset for poverty alleviation since it can provide access that lacking; capital. This study suggests evidences poor farmers could benefit more from <strong>Objective.</strong> was condu...

Agriculture in rural Nigeria is labour-intensive. Thus, the much-desired transition from food insecurity to security by households-requires growth labour productivity. Labour productivity and its effect among other factors on transitions of maize farming households were assessed. Food indices constructed using second third waves data General Household Survey-Panel (2012 2015), a probabilistic m...

This paper examines the relationship between growth and poverty in Iran during the first five-year plan. In other words, effort has been made to show whether economic growth in Iran helped poor people or not. For this purpose the concept of pro poor growth has been analyzed with application to the economy of Iran, both in urban and rural areas and in the country as a whole. We use an indicator ...

poverty is the most serious threat to natural resources and the environment and most of the poor are rural-based who engage in various agricultural activities. land is a critical asset for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately intensify agriculture which compels the poor to either overuse or misuse this natural resource base to meet basic needs. this study presents empirical relatio...