Indigenous forests and savannas, along with plantation forests, offer numerous benefits to
rural communities and society at large. Yet, the role of forests and forestry in contributing to …

This article is a review of the PhD thesis of Mark Collinson, titled,'Striving against adversity:
the dynamics of migration, health and poverty in rural South Africa'. The findings show that in …

Building new space for institutional theory, we propose how the severity of formal and
informal institutional voids shapes the productivity of entrepreneurial activities within society …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to
democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book …

This paper provides a meaning for the term chronic poverty “in a nutshell” and explores the
concepts of poverty, vulnerability and poverty dynamics that underpin this meaning …

Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that
poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large …

The livelihoods of S outh A frica's rural A frican poor have long been characterized by
diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the …

Can the local commercialization of natural products contribute to reduced poverty and
vulnerability? Commentary on this issue is mixed, with some observers being quite …

Fourteen percent of households in 36 villages of three districts in Andhra Pradesh, India,
escaped from poverty over the past 25 years, but another 12% of these 5536 households fell …