Conflicting Measures of Poverty and Inadequate Saving by the Poor – The Role of Status Driven Utility Function

In presence of inequality a status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the developing countries. The result is independent of the assumption of imperfect capital market. The paper attempts to integrate various strands of literature on status effects.Inequality, Inter-temporal consumer choice, Utility, Poverty,

Modelling And Policy Integration Of Sustainable Rice Farming Systems In Bangladesh

Menyedari tentang keadaan kekurangan makanan dan pencemaran daripada amalan pertanian di dunia, penanaman padi telah muncul sebagai usaha penting dalam pembangunan sosio-ekonomi. Beras merupakan makanan ruji kepada lebih daripada setengah bilangan penduduk dunia dan kegiatan penanaman padi ini membekalkan sumber rezeki tunggal serta terbesar kepada kawasan luar bandar di negara Asian. Realising the state of food insecurity and agricultural pollution in the world, rice farming has emerged as a crucial concern of socio-economic development. Rice is the staple food for more than one-half of the world’s population and rice farming provides the single largest source of the livelihood for rural Asians