Its sources of support are international donors and membership fees. Membership is open to individual and institutions engaged in research in the Social Sciences and related fields in Eastern and Southern Africa. Despite rapid growth in aggregate real income, Botswana continues to face endemic problems of unemployment, poverty and undernutrition in rural areas. Both the depth of poverty and its dispersion are considerable among the poor, especially in small villages and settlements.
Poverty is a function of both the level of income and the degree of inequality of wealth.
These are significantly related to differences in household size in adult equivalent, level of livestock ownership, educational attainment of principal income earner, and proximity to urban labour market. Poverty is gender differentiated, but it is more linked to gender-specific differences in these determinants of living standards. A simulation of how much these discriminates screen the poor shows that they are capable to capturing a greater percentage of the poor when they are applied in combination than separately, but how they are combined is crucial in determining the extent of targeting the poor. A logistic regression model is estimated to assess the role of household, community and regional factors in determining household demand for schooling in Ethiopia. Similarly a canonical discriminant function, which separates those with the demand and those without, is computed.