Understanding energy poverty is fundamental to any efforts to alleviate it. This paper, using
the latest (2016) Sri Lankan Household Income and Expenditure survey data, examines the …

Increased usage of technology is linked with poverty reduction, in existing literature but also
rising income inequality due to microeconomic factors. This paper attempts to investigate …

The traditional per-capita based poverty measurements that ignore the heterogeneity in
household size and composition (and hence the potential economies of scale in …

There has been a notable decline in poverty globally, with the reported number of people
living in extreme poverty having declined from 36% in 1990 to 10% in 2015. However, new …

Abstract Laitinen et al.(1983) proposed an extension to the Working's (1943) Model which
allows the marginal share to be a linear function of the corresponding budget share. In this …

Household food waste (HFW) represents a challenge which needs to be halved in order to
achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Addressing food waste at …

[ES] Este estudio permitió consolidar el conocimiento sobre los determinantes del consumo
de hojas de coca en Bolivia. Estimando modelos pooled condicionales y aplicando técnicas …

This chapter investigates whether the gender of the head of the household affects the level
of food consumption economies of scale achieved by households and the effect of such …

Home-grown food plays an important role in enhancing food security in developing counties.
The analysis in this chapter reveals that there are substantial economies of scale in the …