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Infrastructure and cluster development
Women's property rights and gendered policies
This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania.
How resilient are labour markets to natural disasters?
Taboos, agriculture and poverty
The bang for the birr
Remittances, poverty, inequality and welfare
Seasonal migration and agricultural production in Vietnam
Moving forward, looking back
Climate shocks have well-documented impacts on the short-term welfare of rural households in developing countries. We investigate the impact of droughts on Brazilian labour markets.
Insecurity and welfare
Maquiladoras and market mamas: women's work and childcare in Guatemala City and Accra
This paper analyses work, childcare, and earnings of mothers in the slums of Guatemala City and Accra.
The potential of genetically modified food crops to improve human nutrition in developing countries
Because of poor dietary quality and consequent widespread micronutrient malnutrition in low income countries, children and their mothers, who have higher requirements for vitamins and minerals due to rapid growth and reproduction respectively, hav
"This article discusses the impact of drought on poverty dynamics in the South Wollo area of northeastern Ethiopia.
Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar
Exploring poverty traps and social exclusion in South Africa using qualitative and quantitative data
""Recent theoretical work hypothesises that a polarised society like South Africa will suffer a legacy of ineffective social capital and blocked pathways of upward mobility that leaves large numbers of people trapped in poverty.