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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"rural households"”.
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Economic impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households in KwaDlangezwa
… the economic impacts of HIV/AIDS on the rural households in KwaDlangezwa. The study also investigates the hypothesis that Aids has massive economic impact on families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. At the level of the household, AIDS results in the loss of income, assets, savings and …
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Rural households and shocks: Asset transfer, migration and civil conflict
… implications of positive and negative shocks on rural poor's economic wellbeing. In the first paper, based on the joint work with Hope Michelson, Alex Winter-Nelson and Peter Goldsmith, I estimate the impact of an asset transfer program on household resilience, where resilience is defined as the …
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Feminization of poverty within rural households of Thulamela Municipality in South Africa
… of the studies have revealed that female-headed households are poorer than the male-headed ones. However, two major conceptual and methodological weaknesses are evident in the studies, viz.: presenting different types of female-headed households as a homogeneous mass with the uniform …
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The impact of a conditional cash transfer program on consumption of rural households in Peru
Using a quasi-experimental impact evaluation, this thesis explores the impact of Juntos, a conditional cash transfer program from Peru, on consumption and utilization of basic health services for children and women in childbearing age, and on schooling attendance. In this thesis, I use instrumental …
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The Effectiveness of Point-of-Use Treatment in Improving Home Drinking Water Quality in Rural Households
… Drinking water is a common health concern in rural communities, where social, geographic, and economic challenges can inhibit the provision of reliable municipal water. Households without access to municipal water often rely on private wells, which are solely the responsibility of the …
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Potential Economic Benefits from Plantain Integrated Pest Management Adoption: The Case of Coastal Rural Households in Ecuador
… their demand for labor, benefiting mostly poor rural landless households. Urban consumers and rural poor households also benefit from the induced plantain price reduction resulting from increased production.
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An Assessment of Savings and Credit Groups on Poverty Reduction: A Case of Rural Households in North Unguja”,
… in North Unguja, Zanzibar focussing on informal rural groups, formed by the community members to reduce poverty at the household level. The study used a sample of 204 respondents, and used a cross sectional research design. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the uses of …
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Gender-Based Adoption of Agricultural, Health and Family Planning Technologies by Individuals Within Rural Households: The Malawi Case
… such as women from both male and female headed households, males and females depending on unreliable income sources, the illiterate and those with very low or no education at all. The health delivery system needs to investigate and encourage innovative strategies for adequate information, and a …
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Community health insurance as a viable means of increasing access to health care for rural households in Uganda
… a means of increasing access to health care for rural households in Uganda. This was against the background that health care is a basic need and right and that, despite this, households especially in the rural parts of Uganda are still lacking effective access to health care. The study is …
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Livelihood strategies of farmers in Bolivar, Ecuador: asset distribution, activity selection and income generation decisions in rural households
Households in rural Ecuador face several challenges. One of them is the severe deprivation that reaches alarming percentages in the countryside. Unequal distribution and limited assets constrain households from improving their economic conditions. These factors induce households to overexploit …
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Idiosyncratic Income Shocks, Access to Credit, and Households' Welfare in an Agrarian Economy: Micro -Econometric Studies on Rural Households in Bangladesh
… to explain this observed behavior of farm households are portfolio selection, input fixity, safety first, and learning and farmers' experimentation . The validity of these theories is empirically investigated for farm households in Bangladesh. Our empirical results show that the theory of …
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Food Consumption, Food Cash Dependency, and Food Policy in Indonesia
… discovery was that the vast majority of rural consumers were also very dependent on cash for acquiring food. Most agricultural economists concerned with less developed countries have long assumed that rural households produced most of the food they consumed. This study found that among …
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The frontier of the middle class: how farmers and fishers pursue better lives in the coastal landscapes of eastern Indonesia
… The people who live in these remote and rural places are often comparatively poorer than Indonesians living in urban and regional areas, with limited access to infrastructure, government services and markets. They, like most Indonesians, have participated in the massive economic …
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The frontier of the middle class: how farmers and fishers pursue better lives in the coastal landscapes of eastern Indonesia
… The people who live in these remote and rural places are often comparatively poorer than Indonesians living in urban and regional areas, with limited access to infrastructure, government services and markets. They, like most Indonesians, have participated in the massive economic …
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Analyzing the intersection of climate vulnerability and household food insecurity in northern ghana: a sustainable livelihoods approach
… agriculture and food systems, especially in the rural settings of developing countries. In Africa, rural households are adversely impacted by climate change. This is because, besides institutional challenges regarding effective implementation of adaptation policies, rural households depend on …
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Household fuelwood production and consumption in the Nepal's tarai and mid-hills: an econometric analysis and its policy implications
… issue of fuelwood production and consumption for rural households. In this paper, household fuelwood use behavior is empirically assessed and policy implications are drawn. with specific reference to Nepal's tarai and mid-hills. Fuelwood production, supply and demand functions are estimated using …
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Women and land: acces to and use of land and natural resources in the communal areas of rural South Africa
… face of poverty in South Africa is African, rural, and female. As the primary users of rural land, women engage in farming and subsistence activities. Despite this pivotal role played by rural women, they experience grave problems under communal tenure, most notably in relation to access to …
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Wealth, health, and inequality: a study of hyperinflation and households in Zimbabwe
… hyperinflation's effects on the well-being of households, its empirical chapters assessing changes in asset poverty, asset inequality and child malnutrition before and after the hyperinflation. The first empirical chapter assesses the shifts in asset poverty. Household holdings of physical …
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