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Historical papers are prefixed to several issues.
Formal tests of perfect consumption-smoothing do not provide convincing evidence that such patterns are prevalent in village economies. Nevertheless, most individuals appear to have appreciable ability to mitigate income fluctuations.
Women's nutritional status is reduced greatly by certain kinds of energy-expending work (especially agricultural tasks) and by "maternal depletion syndrome" in women with high fertility.
Case studies-- of the links between highlands and lowlands in Latin America; of transmigration in Indonesia; and of migration and desertification in the Sudan-- illustrate the relationship between poverty, internal migration, and environmental change in rural areas of developing countries.