Environmental income improves household-level poverty assessments and dynamics

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 71, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-35

  Walelign, Solomon Zena ^a   Charlery, Lindy ^a   Smith Hall, Carsten ^a   Chhetri, Bir Bahadur Khanal ^b   Larsen, Helle Overgaard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Environmental income; Household income; Nepal; Poverty dynamics; Spells approach

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DYNAMICS MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL INCOMES; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NEPAL; ORDERED LOGIT MODEL; SPELLS APPROACH; TRANSITION MATRICES; WELFARE MEASURES;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84978209162     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2016.07.001     Document Type: Article

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