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Transient Seasonal and Chronic Poverty of Peasants :

Muller, Christophe

Transient Seasonal and Chronic Poverty of Peasants : evidence from Rwanda / - Oxford CSAE Publishing, Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, 1997 - 53p. - Working paper series (Centre for the Study of African Economies) ; WPS/97-8. .

"April 1997."

Includes bibliographic references (p. 53-56).

Using panel data from Rwanda, the paper estimate seasonal transient and chronic poverty indices, for different poverty line, poverty indicators, equivalence scale, and with and without the corrections for price variability and for the sampling scheme. The author also estimated sampling standard errors for the poverty indices. The worse poverty crises occur after the dry season at the end of the year.


Poverty --- Statistics
Rural poor
Peasants -- Economic conditions.
Seasonal variations (Economics)
Labor mobility
Seasonal labor


Rwanda

HC875.Z9 / P65 1997

339.46'0967571 / MUL