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
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Published: 2007
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spelling my-uitm-ir.884052024-03-20T15:31:52Z A study on causes of poverty in rural area with a case study in Tambunan / Marylene Ervie Kamilus 2007 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 https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/88405/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/88405/1/88405.pdf text en public Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies
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topic Rural groups
Rural sociology
Rural groups
Rural sociology
spellingShingle Rural groups
Rural sociology
Rural groups
Rural sociology
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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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
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publishDate 2007
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