An Analysis of Poverty by Livelihood Approach: A Research Study at Karaitivu Divisional Secretariat Division in Ampara District, Sri Lanka - Softcover

Kirupananthan, Tharsinithevy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659187429 ISBN 13: 9783659187421

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This book contributes in the poverty literature since it measures the poverty situation by different methodologies under the livelihood approach. It finds the economic conditions and factors influencing different aspects of economic security. For this purpose log of income, logit of food sufficiency and logit of income sufficiency were used as dependent variables. Among the three models built in this study, education of household head and dummy variable of partially commercialized households were significantly (p<0.05) explain the variation of economic security. In the multiple regression models, the dummy male headed was further significant (p<0.05) in explaining log of income. In the income sufficiency binary logistic regression model, logit of income sufficiency was further determined by age of household head and young is to adult ratio. This study leads to identification of development measures for the poor who lacked in different livelihood assets. It is useful for any practitioner of poverty, specially researchers, policy makers and Academics in the field of development economics.

About this title

About the Author:

Mrs.Tharsinithevy Kirupananthan: M.Sc.in Agriculture at Chiang Mai University, Thailand and currently serving as Senior Lecturer at Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka and received the "Best Student Paper Award" at QQE-2017 for the Research paper from her Master Thesis.

About this edition

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3659187429
• ISBN 13: 9783659187421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104