the total change in living quality happening in developed countries represents a suitable policy and programming conducted by the government. providing enough power and authority for those who are called as society organizers, there remains no doubt to expect a fruitful national economy and consequently a much better living conditions. according to the rate of changes and family economic evolut...

Household welfare is inseparable from the environment because of its dependence on ecosystems and their services. However, linking household welfare and ecosystems in order to inform differentiated household livelihood development in spatially heterogeneous regions is still a great challenge. Based on a field survey of 1754 households, we grouped the relationships between household welfare (def...

In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both di¤erent preferences and di¤erential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an approach that seeks to understand how welfare is distributed in the population because it ignores public good...

This paper studies the relationship between social capital and household welfare. Social capital is taken to mean, very simply, 'durable social networks'. The relationship is investigated using survey work conducted in two villages in eastern Uganda. The surveys gathered information on the quality and extent of people’s participation in local organizations, as well as household welfare. To orga...

In this paper we analyse the effects of microfinance programs upon household welfare in Vietnam. Our analytical framework builds upon the rural household models of Singh et al. (1986) and Rosenzweig (1990). Data on 470 households across 25 villages was collected using a quasiexperiment survey approach to overcome self-selection bias. In our econometric analysis the welfare effects of microfinan...

The paper deals with the measurement of household welfare in a general and flexible framework: It defines measures of individual and household willingness to pay (and to accept) and examines their relationship. The sum of the individual welfare measures forms only an upper bound for the corresponding measure of household welfare. The bounds are tightened by introducing additional assumptions ab...