101 resultados para Rural Poverty

em Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC), Spain


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The relation between agricultural development and rural poverty reduction in six Central Eurasian countries, namely Azerbaijan (South Caucasus) and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Central Asia), is discussed by presenting and analyzing ten propositions. These propositions cover a broad range of issues that relate to rural poverty in this region, such as: the state of income and non-income poverty; the diverse processes of land reform and farm restructuring, and agricultural policy reform; and finally, the institutional and market framework that is needed for dynamic agricultural and rural development. The paper contends that rural poverty is not responding as robustly to rapid economic growth in these countries, and that agricultural growth, in particular in the newly emerging peasant farm sector, is necessary to promote rural poverty reduction.

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This paper investigates vulnerability to poverty in Haiti. Research in vulnerability in developing countries has been scarce due to the high data requirements of vulnerability studies (e.g. panel or long series of cross-sections). The methodology adopted here allows the assessment of vulnerability to poverty by exploiting the short panel structure of nested data at different levels. The decomposition method reveals that vulnerability in Haiti is largely a rural phenomenon and that schooling correlates negatively with vulnerability. Most importantly, among the different shocks affecting household's income, it is found that meso-level shocks are in general far more important than covariate shocks. This finding points to some interesting policy implications in decentralizing policies to alleviate vulnerability to poverty.

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In this article, a real-world case- study is presented with two general objectives: to give a clear and simple illustrative example of application of social multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE) in the field of rural renewable energy policies, and to help in understanding to what extent and under which circumstances solar energy is suitable for electrifying isolated farmhouses. In this sense, this study might offer public decision- makers some insight on the conditions that favour the diffusion of renewable energy, in order to help them to design more effective energy policies for rural communities.

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La capacidad de las formas de tenencia, y más concretamente de la aparcería, para estimular el crecimiento agrario ha dado origen a un amplio debate, iniciado por los economistas clásicos del siglo XVIII y mantenido hasta nuestros días. Hasta la década de 1970 dominaron las opiniones poco favorables a la aparcería; sin embargo, a partir de esta fecha, han aparecido bastantes trabajos empíricos y teóricos cuestionando dichas tesis. Se trata mayoritariamente de trabajos vinculados a enfoques neoinstitucionalistas, distantes del pensamiento neoclásico más ortodoxo, que parten de la inexistencia de un mercado perfectamente competitivo con el que supuestamente se alcanzaría una asignación razonable de recursos, y que concluyen que la aparcería podía alcanzar notables niveles de eficiencia, aunque fuera una eficiencia del second best. Estas conclusiones coinciden en parte con algunas investigaciones sobre la agricultura española y catalana contemporánea, cuyos resultados contradicen la imagen dominante de una agricultura poco proclive al cambio y con escasa capacidad de crecimiento. En este artículo se pretende exponer el funcionamiento de la aparcería en Cataluña y cuestionar que dicha forma de tenencia sea un factor explicativo relevante del moderado crecimiento de la agricultura catalana.

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This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them well-known) which aggregate normative concerns for absolute and relative deprivation. The indices are distinguished by a parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to ``exclusion'' or ``relative-deprivation'' aversion. We also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data finds that he United States show more relative deprivation than Denmark and Belgium whatever the percentiles considered, but that overall deprivation comparisons of the four countries considered will generally necessarily depend on the intensity of the ethical concern for relative deprivation. The impact of growth on poverty is also seen to depend on the presence of and on the attention granted to concerns over relative deprivation. }

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The severely poor are very poor since their consumption is far below the absolute poverty line, and the chronically poor are very poor since their consumption persists for long periods below the absolute poverty line. A combination of chronic poverty and severe poverty (CSP) must represent the very worst instance of poverty. Yet the exercise in this paper of asking simple questions about CSP shows large research gaps. Quantified statements on CSP at the country level can be made for just 14 countries, and at the household level in just six countries. This data suggests a positive correlation between severe poverty and chronic poverty, both at the country level and the household level. Understanding the CSP relationship  whether it is strong, where it arises, what causes it  may improve our explanation of observed cross-country variation in the elasticity between macroeconomic growth and poverty reduction, and why within countries, some households take better advantage of opportunities afforded by macroeconomic growth. Some limited data suggests similarity in socioeconomic characteristics of the severe poor and the chronic poor in terms of location, household size, gender, education and economic sector of work. Of concern is that microlongitudinal datasets drop large proportions of their base year samples, and how this affects our understanding of CSP is not well evaluated. On causal mechanisms, evidence suggests that CSP may be caused by parental CSP (i.e. an intergenerational CSP cycle) and in households not previously poor, CSP may be caused by a morbidity cycle.

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Lâobjectiu del present projecte és establir i recomanar un seguit dâestratègies de desenvolupament rural integrat i sostenible per a la comarca del Solsonès. Per damunt de tot pretén ser una eina útil, fent coincidir les propostes amb lâàmbit temporal del nou PDR (2007-2013) i presentant el projecte a diferents institucions. Amb aquest objectiu sâhan estudiat els aspectes socioeconòmics més rellevants dels diferents municipis, així com altres factors clau com els recursos naturals , els elements dinamitzadors del territori i el context global de lâagricultura i polítiques sectorials europees. A partir de lâavaluació estratègica, i el posterior debat en grups de discussió, es conclou que el Solsonès és una comarca amb la població envellida, especialment a les zones rurals, on els ocupats agraris cada dia són menys. Amb tot, es configura un escenari on el despoblament rural és constant, amb les conseqüències socioembientals implícites a aquest fenomen. Posteriorment a lâavaluació es discuteix lâestratègia global de desenvolupament rural, i, en base a aquesta, es proposen diferents línies estratègiques agrupades en tres grans eixos: la vertebració social, la vertebració territorial i el manteniment, millora i coneixement del paisatge cultural.

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Recently a number of mainstream papers have treated the rise of democracy in 19th century Europe and its instability in Latin America in an eminently Marxist fashion. This paper sets out their implications for Marxist thought. With respect to Europe, Marx's emphasis on political action backed by the threat of violence is vindicated but his justification for socialism is not. With respect to Latin America, the unequal distribution of wealth is the cause of political instability that is, in turn, the root cause of mass poverty. In addition it is possible to explain some of the paradoxical characteristics of neo-liberalism and to make a weak argument for socialism in spite of its rejection in Europe.

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Estudi elaborat a partir dâuna estada a la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador, entre setembre i desembre del 2006. El projecte té l'objectiu general d'elaborar una monografia, entre el treball dâarxiu i el de camp, capaç dâexemplificar els processos de consolidació dels sectors dirigents indígenes i de vincular-los amb les transformacions de la societat rural andina contemporània. Lâestudi de cas és el dâuna organització de segon grau molt representativa (la UNOCANC, parròquia de Toacazo, província de Cotopaxi, Equador), analitzant el que han significat aquest canvis des de la descomposició del règim dâhisenda fins a lâascens dâuna part de lâélite camperola local a les altes instàncies de la CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador).

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El parc rural de la Torre Negra ha estat protegit recentment després de 15 anys de lluita ciutadana, gràcies a lâaprovació del Pla Especial de Protecció i Millora el 29 de juny del present any. A partir dâara, sâobre un ampli ventall de possibilitats per a la seva gestió i desenvolupament. En aquest context és on es situa el present estudi, amb la finalitat de presentar unes línies estratègiques bàsiques per a iniciar lâactivitat al parc. Una activitat que té en el punt de mira el desenvolupament rural de lâespai i la transformació social de la ciutadania.

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Lâincrement del turisme rural i la relació directe amb lâentorn és el que ha motivat lâelaboració d'aquest projecte. Lâobjectiu del qual és fer un estudi de lâestat ambiental dels 17 establiments de turisme rural (ETR) dels 47 ETR situats a lâàmbit dâinfluència del Parc Natural de lâAlt Pirineu (PNAP). A partir del qual sâanalitzarà la viabilitat dâaplicar el Distintiu de Garantia de Qualitat Ambiental (DGQA).

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Aquest treball de fi de carrera pretén desenvolupar el pla de negoci per a la construcció i lâexplotació dâun complex de turisme rural al Pallars Sobirà. El projecte compren lâenderroc de les construccions preexistents, construcció i posterior explotació dâapartaments dâús turístic i una cafeteria a la població dâ Ãreu. Dins el pla de negoci sâhi contemplen els plans comercial, financer, lâanàlisi del mercat i lâentorn i una acurada definició del servei que sâoferirà. Amb el treball es vol, doncs, aportar idees pràctiques i útils per a la consecució dels objectius plantejats en el projecte familiar.

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The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex sampling procedures that are typically used by statistical agencies to generate household-level surveys, are implemented using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for 1996, 1999 and 2002. Although the yearly cumulative distribution functions cross at the lower tails of the distributions, the more recent years tend to dominate earlier years for a relatively wide range of poverty lines. Failing to take into account SLID's sampling variability (as is sometimes done) can inflate significantly one's confidence in ranking poverty. Taking into account SLID's complex sampling design (as has not been done before) can also decrease substantially the range of poverty lines over which a poverty ranking can be inferred.

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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un-normalized fashion, in order to take into into account the total as well as the per dollar impacts. The methodology is applied to data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database.