Rural Poverty Determinants in the Remote Rural Areas of Kyrgyzstan
Rural Poverty Determinants in the Remote Rural Areas of Kyrgyzstan
Autor
Kanat Tilekeyev
The book studies rural poverty in Kyrgyzstan. A cross-section random sample of 297 households allows to measure poverty and frontier production efficiency of a sample using DEA and SFA methods. The results demonstrate the existence and statistical significance of the poverty-efficiency linkage. The endogeneity problem is resolved with TSLS methods.