Protected areas (PAs) and payments for ecosystem services (PES) are key global land conservation policies, yet there are few empirical comparisons of their impacts. We study how PAs and PES affected forest conservation, poverty reduction and population change at the locality level in Mexico in the past decade. We find that both generated an approximately 20% reduction in expected forest cover l...

The treatment of housing in the definition of income used to measure poverty makes a big difference to who is counted as poor. Both the Before Housing Costs (BHC) and After Housing Costs (AHC) measures in current use in the UK pose problems. We compare BHC and AHC income with an alternative measure, overcoming their respective flaws by including in income the difference between the estimated va...

depth review of egyption recent developments in the overthrow of hosni mubarak's regime andelected government after the revolution, shows that recent movement in this country needs a analysis is based on political economy .certain direction the egyptian people in revolution, not merely for greater freedom and not the slightest tendency to set up tent style democracy such as the west, but o...

A variant of the microeconometric decomposition methodology proposed by Bourguignon et al. (1998) has been applied in this paper in order to assess the relevance of various factors that affected inequality in Paraguay between 1992 and 2005. The results of this paper suggest that the smaller change in inequality between 1992 and 1997/98 is mainly as a result of employment (including hours of wor...

Fuel poverty affects millions of UK households, and more than 80% of the affected are vulnerable people. We propose an approach to address fuel poverty by engaging with and supporting the work of energy advisors provided by nonprofit organisations such as charities. We outline our approach that consists of fieldwork to develop an understanding of fuel poverty; participatory design sessions with...

II. Experience in Implementing the PRSP Approach...................................................................9 A. Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (I-PRSPs) ...................................................9 Taking stock of the I-PRSP experience .......................................................................10 Prospective I-PRSPs ...........................................