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A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus

Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Sabah especially in the rural area. This paper used a rural dataset collected by interviewing method. Findings show that hardcore income poverty in rural areas reached most of the people in the selected study area. These families tend to...

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Main Author: Kamilus, Marylene Ervie
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Rural groups. Rural sociology
Poor in cities. Slums
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/88405/1/88405.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.884052024-03-20T15:31:52Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/88405/ A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus Kamilus, Marylene Ervie Rural groups. Rural sociology Poor in cities. Slums Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Sabah especially in the rural area. This paper used a rural dataset collected by interviewing method. Findings show that hardcore income poverty in rural areas reached most of the people in the selected study area. These families tend to: be large, and young, and to escape from poverty as they mature and children leave the household (life cycle); and be more likely to be small landholders than landless laborers. The structure of poverty in rural area shows that: larger households are poorer than smaller households, female headed households are poorer than male headed households, young households/household heads are poorer than older households/household heads, the poor tend to work more in the informal sector, and a greater share of those engaged in agriculture are poor. However, poverty is by no means strictly an agricultural problem. Furthermore, the deepest poverty is among the poorly educated and young household heads 'with children. Without interventions to improve their opportunities and assets, their plight is likely to worsen. 2007 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/88405/1/88405.pdf A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus. (2007) UNSPECIFIED thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah.
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topic Rural groups. Rural sociology
Poor in cities. Slums
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Poor in cities. Slums
Kamilus, Marylene Ervie
A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus
description Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Sabah especially in the rural area. This paper used a rural dataset collected by interviewing method. Findings show that hardcore income poverty in rural areas reached most of the people in the selected study area. These families tend to: be large, and young, and to escape from poverty as they mature and children leave the household (life cycle); and be more likely to be small landholders than landless laborers. The structure of poverty in rural area shows that: larger households are poorer than smaller households, female headed households are poorer than male headed households, young households/household heads are poorer than older households/household heads, the poor tend to work more in the informal sector, and a greater share of those engaged in agriculture are poor. However, poverty is by no means strictly an agricultural problem. Furthermore, the deepest poverty is among the poorly educated and young household heads 'with children. Without interventions to improve their opportunities and assets, their plight is likely to worsen.
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author Kamilus, Marylene Ervie
author_facet Kamilus, Marylene Ervie
author_sort Kamilus, Marylene Ervie
title A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus
title_short A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus
title_full A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus
title_fullStr A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus
title_full_unstemmed A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus
title_sort study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in tambunan / marylene ervie kamilus
publishDate 2007
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/88405/1/88405.pdf
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