TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muller, Christophe
ED  - Centre for the Study of African Economies.
TI  - Transient Seasonal and Chronic Poverty of Peasants: evidence from Rwanda 
AV  - HC875.Z9  P65 1997  
U1  - 339.46'0967571 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - CSAE Publishing, Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford
KW  - Poverty --- Statistics
KW  - Rural poor
KW  - Peasants -- Economic conditions.
KW  - Seasonal variations (Economics)
KW  - Labor mobility
KW  - Seasonal labor
KW  - Rwanda
N1  - "April 1997."; Includes bibliographic references (p. 53-56)
N2  - 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.
ER  -