This article examines the relation between poor women and men and common property resources (cprs). It locates poor people's use of cprs within a wider focus on sustainable livelihoods, which argues that development initiatives need to build on people's assets and strengths, and identifies cprs as a crucial element of poor people's coping and adaptive strategies.
This paper provides evidence that endowments of human and physical capital and changes in them help explain why a household can successfully escape poverty, in addition to its demographic and other socio-economic characteristics.
This ten-country study from Africa looks at how the small-scale provider sector responds to market niches and meets the needs of both the poor and other unserviced communities.
This paper generates and analyses survey data on inequalities in mortality among infants and children aged under five years by consumption in Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa and Vietnam.
This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cote d ’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing the in-depth analysis of simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income.
